When Moses set up the tabernacle and put its bases in place, he set up its frames, attached its bars, and set up its posts.

A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.

The Lord told me, ¹  “Make a yoke ²  out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and put it on your neck.

I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, ¹  and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright. ² 

The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

I ¹  said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem must not be opened in the early morning, ²  until those who are standing guard close the doors and lock them. ³  Position residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their guard stations and some near their homes.”

Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north? ¹ 

And Jesus answered him, ¹  “You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood ²  did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!

He said to the people of Judah: ¹  “Let’s build these cities and fortify them with walls, towers, and barred gates. ²  The land remains ours because we have followed ³  the Lord our God and he has made us secure on all sides.” ⁴  So they built the cities ⁵  and prospered.

Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, son of Zerah, along with the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, ox, donkey, sheep, tent, and all that belonged to him and brought them up to the Valley of Disaster. ¹ 

Then they must put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a carrying beam. ¹ 

The prophet Hananiah then took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck and broke it.

And now, ¹  I will break Assyria’s ²  yoke bar ³  from your neck; ⁴  I will tear apart the shackles ⁵  that are on you.” ⁶ 

They bind ¹  their kings in chains, and their nobles in iron shackles,

The Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, ¹  my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.

Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.

The ropes of Sheol ¹  tightened around me; ²  the snares of death trapped me. ³ 

It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, ¹  the snares of death trapped me. ² 

They sat in utter darkness, ¹  bound in painful iron chains, ²