Thematic Bible: Persons confined in
Thematic Bible
Prisons » Persons confined in » Sometimes allowed to be visited by their friends
Then he ordered the centurion to keep Paul in custody, but to let him have some freedom, and [he told the centurion] not to stop any of his friends from providing for his needs.
Now when John [the Baptist] in prison heard about the activities of Christ, he sent word by his disciples
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often subjected to extreme suffering
Let the groaning and sighing of the prisoner come before You;
According to the greatness of Your power keep safe those who are doomed to die.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often bound with fetters
For Herod himself had sent [guards] and had John arrested and shackled in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his [half-] brother Philip, because he (Herod) had married her.
if you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in your [place here in] prison; but as for the rest of you, go, carry grain for the famine in your households,
‘They put him in a cage with hooks and chains
And brought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in hunting nets
So that his voice would be heard no more
On the mountains of Israel.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often executed in
He sent and had John beheaded in the prison.
but Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted [the meaning of the dreams] to them.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often fastened in stocks
“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,
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].
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often placed in dungeons
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].
Then at Riblah the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; the king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Might have their condition ameliorated by the king
Therefore hear now, I pray you, O my lord the king. Let my supplication, I pray you, come before you and be acceptable, that you do not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard, and a round loaf of bread from the bakers' street was given to him daily until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained [imprisoned] in the court of the guard.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Said to be in ward
They put him in custody until the will and command of the Lord might be made clear to them.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Clothed in prison dress
Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes [for palace garments] and he dined regularly in the king’s presence for the remainder of his life;
Prisons » Persons confined in » Fed on bread and water
and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this man in prison, and feed him sparingly with the bread and water until I return safely.”’”
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often kept to hard labor
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.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often chained to two soldiers
The very night before Herod was to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries were in front of the door guarding the prison.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Said to be in hold
So they arrested them and put them in jail until the next day, because it was evening.