And when Herod would have brought him out, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the guards before the door watched the prison.
And when he came to us, he took Paul’s waistband, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus says the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owns this waistband, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
Then immediately those who would have examined him departed from him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
On the next day, because he would have known the true reason for which he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before he who is accused meets the accusers face to face, and has liberty to answer for himself concerning the crime held against him.
And Paul said, I would to God, that not only you, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Even as it is fitting for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; seeing that both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all sharers of my grace.
And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you securely, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him with them, and said to him, The Philistines be upon you, Samson. And there were men waiting, staying in the chamber. And he broke them off from his arms like a thread.
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.