Thematic Bible: Confinement
Thematic Bible
Birds » Confinement » Cages
so their houses are full of deceit.
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.
Homicide » Confinement » City of refuge
The assembly is to protect the one who kills someone from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge he fled to, and he must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
for the one who killed a person was supposed to live in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the one who has killed a person return to the land he possesses.
Verse Concepts
Prisons » Confinement
“Lord,” he told Him, “I’m ready to go with You both to prison and to death!”
Verse Concepts
Prisons » Punishment » Confinement
Anyone who does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a fair judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
Punishment » Minor offenses » Confinement » Within limits
The king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death today, since you carried the ark of the Lord God in the presence of my father David and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”
Verse Concepts
Then the king summoned Shimei and said to him, "Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, but don't leave there [and go] anywhere else. On the day you do leave and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will certainly die. Your blood will be on your own head." Shimei said to the king, "The sentence is fair; your servant will do as my lord the king has spoken." And Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.
Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Confinement » Dungeon
because of the blood of your covenant,
I will release your prisoners
from the waterless cistern.
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the guard’s courtyard, lowering Jeremiah with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Confinement » Stocks
So Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the Lord’s temple.
Verse Concepts
Receiving such an order, he put them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.