Thematic Bible: Confinement
Thematic Bible
Birds » Confinement » Cages
As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.
Homicide » Confinement » City of refuge
and the assembly shall rescue the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the assembly shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he had fled; and he shall abide in it until the death of the high-priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
for the manslayer should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high-priest; but after the death of the high-priest he may return into the land of his possession.
Prisons » Confinement
And he said to him, Lord, with thee I am ready to go both to prison and to death.
Prisons » Punishment » Confinement
And whosoever will not do the law of thy God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed diligently upon him, whether unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
Punishment » Minor offenses » Confinement » Within limits
And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Go to Anathoth, to thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death; but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of Adonai Jehovah before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and abide there, and go not forth thence anywhere. And it shall be that on the day thou goest forth, and passest over the torrent of Kidron, ... know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head. And Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king has said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Confinement » Dungeon
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, I will send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Confinement » Stocks
And Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah.
who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.