Thematic Bible: In prison


Thematic Bible



But the king of Assyria discovered a conspiracy in Hoshea, who sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria arrested him 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 [two] bronze chains; and he was forced to be a grinder [of grain into flour at the mill] in the prison. Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGrindingImprisonmentsKnivesMonotonyMutilationPrisonersTortureCaptivesHeartlessnessHard LaborPrisonsBrassGrinding FoodEyes HarmedBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

He put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisons

and they put him in custody, because it had not been explained [by God] what should be done to him. Verse ConceptsPrisons


But this is a people despoiled and plundered;
All of them are trapped in holes,
Or are hidden away in prisons.
They have become a prey with no one to rescue them,
And a spoil, with no one to say, “Give them back!”
Verse ConceptsPlunderingRescueTrapPrisonscredibilityjail

Then the king of Babylon blinded Zedekiah, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon and there he put him in prison [in a mill] until the day of his death. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisonsLifelongKings ExiledBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

suddenly there was a great earthquake, so [powerful] that the very foundations of the prison were shaken and at once all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened. Verse ConceptsFoundationsearthquakesChainsPrisonsSudden EventsIron ChainsFoundations Of BuildingsGod ShakingGod Freeing CaptivesBreaking Chainsjailevangelising

Now it happened after a long time [about forty years] that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel (Jacob) groaned and sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out. And their cry for help because of their bondage ascended 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 set taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. And the sons of Israel built Pithom and Raamses as storage cities for Pharaoh. Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

One day, after Moses had grown [into adulthood], it happened that he went to his countrymen and looked [with compassion] at their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his countrymen. Verse ConceptsVisitingGrowing UpForced Labourempathymanhood

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

that our fathers (ancestors) went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time, and the Egyptians treated [both] us and our fathers badly. Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing EvilStaying A Long Time


He turned the heart [of the Egyptians] to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.
Verse ConceptsHating Peoples

And this is, in effect, what God spoke [to him]: That his descendants would be aliens (strangers) 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 also put my feet in the stocks [as punishment]
And [critically] observe all my paths;
You set a circle and limit around the soles of my feet [which I must not overstep],
Verse ConceptsPaths Of BelieversGod Seeing All PeoplePathsfootprints


Suddenly he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter [not knowing the outcome],
Or as one in stocks going to the correction [to be given] to a fool,
Verse ConceptsBeing Killed Like An AnimalKilled Like An AnimalDeerimpulsiveness

And the next day Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call your name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib (terror on every side). Verse ConceptsPeople Renaming PeopleFear Will Cometerrorism

“The Lord has made you [Zephaniah] priest instead of Jehoiada the [deputy] 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

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