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 have 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, whither he had fled: and he shall abide in it to 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 whoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. Verse ConceptsCriminalsCivil authoritiesBanishmentGovernmentCivic DutiesImprisonmentsLoyaltyPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMagistratesCitizenshipConfiscationAnarchyJudicial PunishmentBreaking God's Law

And to Abiathar the priest said the king, Depart to Anathoth, to thy 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 the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast 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 to him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence to any place whatever. For it shall be, that on the day thou shalt go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thy own head. And Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy 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 they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. Verse ConceptsDungeonsInjuryMonotonyPersecution, Forms OfPersecution, Nature OfPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRopesSuffering, Causes OfCisternsLowering PeopleMarshes

Then Pashur 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