Thematic Bible: Confinement


Thematic Bible



Like cages filled with birds, their houses are filled with deceit. That is why they become powerful and rich. Verse ConceptsCagesMen DeceivingGetting RichBirds

If you are innocent, the community must protect you from that relative. They must take you back to the city of refuge you fled to. You must live there until the death of the chief priest who was anointed with the holy oil. Verse ConceptsRankManslaughterAnointing PriestsDeath Of Office Holders

Accused murderers must stay in their city of refuge until the death of the chief priest. They may go back to their own property only after his death. Verse ConceptsDeath Of Office HoldersPermission To Return Home


If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him. This is by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison. Verse ConceptsCriminalsCivil authoritiesBanishmentGovernmentCivic DutiesImprisonmentsLoyaltyPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMagistratesCitizenshipConfiscationAnarchyJudicial PunishmentBreaking God's Law

The king spoke to Abiathar the priest: Go to your fields at Anathoth. You deserve death. But I will not put you to death now, because you carried the Ark of Jehovah God before David my father. You were with him in all his troubles. Verse ConceptsSuffering, HardshipThe Ark In JerusalemDeserving Death

The king sent for Shimei and said to him: Build a house for yourself here in Jerusalem. Live in it and do not leave the city. If you ever leave and go beyond Kidron Brook, you will die and it will be your fault. As you say, Your Majesty, Shimei answered. I will do what you say. So he lived in Jerusalem a long time.


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. Verse ConceptsDungeonsInjuryMonotonyPersecution, Forms OfPersecution, Nature OfPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRopesSuffering, Causes OfCisternsLowering PeopleMarshes

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. Verse ConceptsFloggingGatesNamed Gates

Receiving this command he threw them into the inner prison, and fastened their feet in the stocks. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsInjury To Feet