Thematic Bible: Confinement


Thematic Bible



As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich. Verse ConceptsCagesMen DeceivingGetting RichBirds

And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, where he had fled: and he shall abide in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. Verse ConceptsRankManslaughterAnointing PriestsDeath Of Office Holders

Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession. Verse ConceptsDeath Of Office HoldersPermission To Return Home


And whosoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. Verse ConceptsCriminalsCivil authoritiesBanishmentGovernmentCivic DutiesImprisonmentsLoyaltyPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMagistratesCitizenshipConfiscationAnarchyJudicial PunishmentBreaking God's Law

And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you to Anathoth, unto your own fields; for you are worthy of death: but I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you have been afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted. Verse ConceptsSuffering, HardshipThe Ark In JerusalemDeserving Death

And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build you a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth from there anywhere. For it shall be, that on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, you shall know for certain that you shall surely die: your blood shall be upon your own head. And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit in which is no water. Verse ConceptsCisternsPitsDry PlacesBlood Of The CovenantGod Freeing CaptivesPits Symbolizing GriefTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiThe Blood Of Jesusliberation

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with ropes. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sank in the mire. Verse ConceptsDungeonsInjuryMonotonyPersecution, Forms OfPersecution, Nature OfPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRopesSuffering, Causes OfCisternsLowering PeopleMarshes

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD. Verse ConceptsFloggingGatesNamed Gates

Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsInjury To Feet