Thematic Bible: In prison


Thematic Bible



Hoshea's treachery became clear to the king of Assyria. He had sent representatives to the king of Egypt. He did not send his offering to the king of Assyria like he did in previous years. So the king of Assyria had him put in chains and locked in prison. Verse ConceptsArrestingMessengers Sent OutenvoyConspiraciesImprisonmentsPrisonersTaxationPrisons

The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with copper chains. They put him to work grinding at the mill 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. It was the same place where Joseph was imprisoned. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisons

They held him in custody until they decided what to do with him. Verse ConceptsPrisons

Now his people have been plundered. They are locked up in dungeons and hidden away in prisons. They were robbed and plundered, with no one to come to their rescue. Verse ConceptsPlunderingRescueTrapPrisonscredibilityjail

Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze shackles. The king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in a prison, where he stayed until he died. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisonsLifelongKings ExiledBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

Suddenly there was a massive earthquake. It was so great the foundations of the prison-house were shaken. All the doors were opened and everyone's bands came off. Verse ConceptsFoundationsearthquakesChainsPrisonsSudden EventsIron ChainsFoundations Of BuildingsGod ShakingGod Freeing CaptivesBreaking Chainsjailevangelising


So the Egyptians put slave masters over them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply (storage) cities for Pharaoh. Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

After Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people (his brothers) were hard at work. He saw an Egyptian beating one of them. Verse ConceptsVisitingGrowing UpForced Labourempathymanhood

The king of Egypt replied: Moses and Aaron, why do you distract the people from their work? Get back to work! Verse ConceptsDoing One's Workdistractions

Our ancestors went to Egypt. We lived there for many years. The Egyptians mistreated our ancestors and us. Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing EvilStaying A Long Time

He changed their minds so that they hated his people, and they dealt treacherously with his servants. Verse ConceptsHating Peoples

God spoke to this effect, that his seed would be alien residents in a strange land. They would enslave them, and mistreat them for four hundred years. Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of100 Years And MoreThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelslaveryoppression

You fasten my feet in shackles. You keep close watch on all my paths by putting marks on the soles of my feet. Verse ConceptsPaths Of BelieversGod Seeing All PeoplePathsfootprints

He immediately goes after her. He is like a bull that goes to the slaughter. Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, Verse ConceptsBeing Killed Like An AnimalKilled Like An AnimalDeerimpulsiveness

The next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. Jeremiah said to him: Pashhur is not the name Jehovah has called you. He has called you Magor-missabib. Verse ConceptsPeople Renaming PeopleFear Will Cometerrorism

Jehovah made you priest instead of Jehoiada so that there would be officials for Jehovah's temple. You should put every madman who acts like a prophet in prison and in shackles. Verse ConceptsMadmenDeposed PriestsExchange Of IndividualsReckoned Insane

Receiving this command he threw them into the inner prison, and fastened their feet in the stocks. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsInjury To Feet