Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

Bible References

Captive

Isaiah 48:20

Get out of Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans [who reign there]!
Declare with a voice of jubilation, proclaim this,
Send it out to the end of the earth;
Say, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”
Isaiah 52:2

Shake yourself from the dust, arise,
O captive Jerusalem;
Rid yourself of the chains around your neck,
O captive Daughter of Zion.
Ezra 1:5
Then the heads of the fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites, all those whose spirits God had stirred up, arose to go up and rebuild the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.
Acts 12:7
Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared [beside him] and a light shone in the cell. The angel struck Peter’s side and awakened him, saying, “Get up quickly!” And the chains fell off his hands.

Die

Jeremiah 37:16
When Jeremiah had come into the vaulted cell in the dungeon and had remained there many days,
Jeremiah 38:6
So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down [into the cistern] with ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
Lamentations 3:53

They silenced me in the pit
And placed a stone over me.
Zechariah 9:11

As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you [My chosen people, the covenant that was sealed with blood]
I have freed your prisoners from the waterless pit.