Thematic Bible: Confinement


Thematic Bible



Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich; Verse ConceptsCagesMen DeceivingGetting RichBirds

And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil. Verse ConceptsRankManslaughterAnointing PriestsDeath Of Office Holders

For he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession. Verse ConceptsDeath Of Office HoldersPermission To Return Home


Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment." Verse ConceptsCriminalsCivil authoritiesBanishmentGovernmentCivic DutiesImprisonmentsLoyaltyPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMagistratesCitizenshipConfiscationAnarchyJudicial PunishmentBreaking God's Law

And to Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all my father's affliction." Verse ConceptsSuffering, HardshipThe Ark In JerusalemDeserving Death

Then the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there to any place whatever. For on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die. Your blood shall be on your own head." And Shimei said to the king, "What you say is good; as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do." So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. Verse ConceptsCisternsPitsDry PlacesBlood Of The CovenantGod Freeing CaptivesPits Symbolizing GriefTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiThe Blood Of Jesusliberation

So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud. Verse ConceptsDungeonsInjuryMonotonyPersecution, Forms OfPersecution, Nature OfPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRopesSuffering, Causes OfCisternsLowering PeopleMarshes

Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the LORD. Verse ConceptsFloggingGatesNamed Gates

Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsInjury To Feet

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