Thematic Bible: In prison


Thematic Bible



But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. Verse ConceptsArrestingMessengers Sent OutenvoyConspiraciesImprisonmentsPrisonersTaxationPrisons

Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze chains, and he was a grinder in the prison. Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGrindingImprisonmentsKnivesMonotonyMutilationPrisonersTortureCaptivesHeartlessnessHard LaborPrisonsBrassGrinding FoodEyes HarmedBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisons

and they put him in custody because it had not been declared what should be done to him. Verse ConceptsPrisons

But this is a people plundered and despoiled;
All of them are trapped in caves,
Or are hidden away in prisons;
They have become a prey with none to deliver them,
And a spoil, with none to say, “Give them back!”
Verse ConceptsPlunderingRescueTrapPrisonscredibilityjail

Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisonsLifelongKings ExiledBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened. Verse ConceptsFoundationsearthquakesChainsPrisonsSudden EventsIron ChainsFoundations Of BuildingsGod ShakingGod Freeing CaptivesBreaking Chainsjailevangelising

Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God. Verse ConceptsBeggarsMonotonyPeace, Human Search ForPrayer, As Asking GodSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Of The InnocentCaptivity, Of IsraelCrying To GodMoving UpwardsCries Of Distress To GodMaking SlavesDeath Of Office HoldersParents Prayer For Their Childrenprocess

So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses. Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

Now it came about in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. Verse ConceptsVisitingGrowing UpForced Labourempathymanhood

But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labors!” Verse ConceptsDoing One's Workdistractions

that our fathers went down to Egypt, and we stayed in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly. Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing EvilStaying A Long Time

He turned their heart to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.
Verse ConceptsHating Peoples

But God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years. Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of100 Years And MoreThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelslaveryoppression

“You put my feet in the stocks
And watch all my paths;
You set a limit for the soles of my feet,
Verse ConceptsPaths Of BelieversGod Seeing All PeoplePathsfootprints

Suddenly he follows her
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,
Verse ConceptsBeing Killed Like An AnimalKilled Like An AnimalDeerimpulsiveness

On the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “Pashhur is not the name the Lord has called you, but rather Magor-missabib. Verse ConceptsPeople Renaming PeopleFear Will Cometerrorism

“The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be the overseer in the house of the Lord over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and in the iron collar, Verse ConceptsMadmenDeposed PriestsExchange Of IndividualsReckoned Insane

and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsInjury To Feet