Reference: Dungeon
Easton
different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Ac 16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern (Jer 38:6). To be shut up in, a punishment common in Egypt (Ge 39:20; 40:3; 41:10; 42:19). It is not mentioned, however, in the law of Moses as a mode of punishment. Under the later kings imprisonment was frequently used as a punishment (2Ch 16:10; Jer 20:2; 32:2; 33:1; 37:15), and it was customary after the Exile (Mt 11:2; Lu 3:20; Ac 5:18,21; Mt 18:30).
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and threw Joseph in the same prison where the king's prisoners were kept. While Joseph was in prison,
So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard. It was the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.
When you were angry with your chief cook and me, you threw us both in jail in the house of the captain of the guard.
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in prison. Concerning the rest of you, carry grain for the famine of your households,
Asa was so angry with the prophet that he had him put in chains. It was at this same time that Asa began treating some of the people cruelly.
Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of Jehovah.
At that time the army of the king of Babylon was blockading Jerusalem. The prophet Jeremiah was locked up in the courtyard of the prison. This prison was in the palace of the king of Judah.
The word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard:
The officials were so angry with Jeremiah that they beat him and put him in prison in the scribe Jonathan's house, which had been turned into a prison.
So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it.
While in prison, John heard news of what Christ was doing. He sent his disciples.
He would not give him time. He put him into prison till he paid the debt.
They captured the apostles and put them in the common prison.
When they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him. He called the council together and all the senate of the children of Israel and sent to the prison to have them brought.
Receiving this command he threw them into the inner prison, and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Morish
Pit used for water, but sometimes dry and used as a prison. Joseph called his prison a dungeon, though perhaps it was not a pit. Ge 40:15; 41:14. Jeremiah was put into a pit, and he sank in the mire. Jer 38:6-13; La 3:53,55.
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I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews. And here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.
So the king sent for Joseph. He was quickly brought out of jail. He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to the king.
So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it. Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch (officer) who worked in the royal palace, heard that they had put me in the well. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate. read more. So Ebedmelech went there and said to the king: Your Majesty, what these men have done is wrong. They have put Jeremiah in the well, where he is sure to die of starvation, since there is no more food in the city. Then the king ordered Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, Take with you three men and to pull him out of the well before he dies. So Ebedmelech went with the men to the palace storeroom and got some worn-out clothing which he let down to me by ropes. He told me to put the rags under my arms, so that the ropes would not hurt me. I did this. So they pulled me up out of the well. After that I was kept in the courtyard.
They sentence my life to prison and keep hurling stones at me.
I called out your name in prayer, O Jehovah, out of the lowest prison.
Smith
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