Thematic Bible: In prison


Thematic Bible



The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. Hoshea had sent messengers to King So of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. Verse ConceptsArrestingMessengers Sent OutenvoyConspiraciesImprisonmentsPrisonersTaxationPrisons

The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison. Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGrindingImprisonmentsKnivesMonotonyMutilationPrisonersTortureCaptivesHeartlessnessHard LaborPrisonsBrassGrinding FoodEyes HarmedBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

so he imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard in the same facility where Joseph was confined. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisons

They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him. Verse ConceptsPrisons

But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says, "Bring that back!" Verse ConceptsPlunderingRescueTrapPrisonscredibilityjail

He had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him bound in chains. Then the king of Babylon had him led off to Babylon and he was imprisoned there until the day he died. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisonsLifelongKings ExiledBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

Suddenly a great earthquake occurred, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately all the doors flew open, and the bonds of all the prisoners came loose. Verse ConceptsFoundationsearthquakesChainsPrisonsSudden EventsIron ChainsFoundations Of BuildingsGod ShakingGod Freeing CaptivesBreaking Chainsjailevangelising

During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went 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 put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people. Verse ConceptsVisitingGrowing UpForced Labourempathymanhood

The king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!" Verse ConceptsDoing One's Workdistractions

how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly. Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing EvilStaying A Long Time

He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants. Verse ConceptsHating Peoples

But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years. Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of100 Years And MoreThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelslaveryoppression

And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet. Verse ConceptsPaths Of BelieversGod Seeing All PeoplePathsfootprints

Suddenly he went after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper's snare Verse ConceptsBeing Killed Like An AnimalKilled Like An AnimalDeerimpulsiveness

But the next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. When he did, Jeremiah said to him, "The Lord's name for you is not 'Pashhur' but 'Terror is Everywhere.' Verse ConceptsPeople Renaming PeopleFear Will Cometerrorism

"The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada. He has put you in charge in the Lord's temple of controlling any lunatic who pretends to be a prophet. And it is your duty to put any such person in the stocks with an iron collar around his neck. Verse ConceptsMadmenDeposed PriestsExchange Of IndividualsReckoned Insane

Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsInjury To Feet

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