Thematic Bible: Imprisonment


Thematic Bible



After striking them many times [with the rods], they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely. Verse ConceptsGuardsPunishment, Legal Aspects Of


I assure you and most solemnly say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid the last cent. Verse ConceptsGoing OutsideEvil And FreedomSettling Accounts

But he was unwilling and he went and had him thrown in prison until he paid back the debt. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedSettling AccountsDebtjail

For Herod had John arrested and bound him and put him in prison [at the fortress of Machaerus, east of the Jordan, to keep him away] because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, Verse ConceptsFaultsPrisonersRopesTying UpNamed Wives

Now when John [the Baptist] in prison heard about the activities of Christ, he sent word by his disciples Verse ConceptsPrisonersHearing About ChristDisciples Of John The BaptistChrist's WorkDiscipleshipjail

He, having received such a [strict] command, threw them into the inner prison (dungeon) and fastened their feet in the stocks [in an agonizing position]. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsInjury To Feet

So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down [into the cistern] with ropes. Now 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

So Joseph’s master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsEmployers, Bad ExamplesPrisonsjail


When he had seized Peter, he put him in prison, turning him over to four squads of soldiers of four each to guard him [in rotation throughout the night], planning after the Passover to bring him out before the people [for execution]. Verse ConceptsGuardsImprisonmentsPassoverPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSoldiersFour GroupsEasterPeople Releasing Othersjail

After striking them many times [with the rods], they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely. Verse ConceptsGuardsPunishment, Legal Aspects Of


So Joseph’s master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsEmployers, Bad ExamplesPrisonsjail

Come to terms quickly [at the earliest opportunity] with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way [to court], so that your opponent does not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you are thrown into prison. Verse ConceptsAgreementDiscorddisagreementsLawyersJudgesOfficersAttorneyLawsuitsLitigationQuarrelsDebtorsAgreeingHanding Over PeopleImprisonmentsCourt SessionsPeople Accusing PeopleMisunderstandingsMaking Peace With EnemiesReconciliationConflictResolving Conflictjail

Whoever does not observe and practice the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him strictly and promptly, whether it be for death or banishment or confiscation of property or imprisonment.” Verse ConceptsCriminalsCivil authoritiesBanishmentGovernmentCivic DutiesImprisonmentsLoyaltyPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMagistratesCitizenshipConfiscationAnarchyJudicial PunishmentBreaking God's Law

After striking them many times [with the rods], they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely. Verse ConceptsGuardsPunishment, Legal Aspects Of