Thematic Bible: Persons confined in
Thematic Bible
Prisons » Persons confined in » Sometimes allowed to be visited by their friends
[He] ordered the centurion [for] him to be guarded and to have some freedom, and in no way to prevent any of his own [people] [from] serving him.
Now [when] John heard in prison the deeds of Christ, he sent [word] by his disciples
I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you cared for me, I was in prison and you came to me.'
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often subjected to extreme suffering
Let the groaning of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your {power}, spare [the] children [appointed to] death.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often bound with fetters
For Herod himself had sent [and] arrested John and bound him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.
If you [are] honest, let one of your brothers be kept in prison {where you are now being kept}, but [the rest of] you go, carry grain for the famine for your households.
And they put him in a collar with hooks, and they brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into a prison, so that his voice [would] not be heard {any longer} on the mountains of Israel.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often executed in
And he sent [orders] [and] had John beheaded in the prison,
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often fastened in stocks
"Yahweh made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there are overseers [in] the house of Yahweh over any mad man [who] exhibits the behavior of a prophet, and you must put him into the stocks and into the neck iron,
Having received such an order, {he} put them in the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often placed in dungeons
Having received such an order, {he} put them in the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also slaughtered all the nobles of Judah.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Might have their condition ameliorated by the king
Now then, my lord the king, please let my plea fall {before you}. You must not send me back [to] the house of Jonathan the secretary, so that I will not die there." So King Zedekiah commanded, and they handed Jeremiah over in the courtyard of the guard, and they gave to him a round loaf of bread from the street of the bakers {every day} until the finishing of all the bread from the city. And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Said to be in ward
Then they put him in custody {so that} [the matter] might be made clear to them in accordance with the mouth of Yahweh.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Clothed in prison dress
So he changed the clothes of his imprisonment, and he ate food continually in his presence all the days of his life.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Fed on bread and water
and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this [fellow in] the house of imprisonment and feed him reduced rations of food and water until I come in peace." '"
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often kept to hard labor
And [the] Philistines seized him, gouged his eyes, and brought him to Gaza. They tied him up with bronze shackles, and he became a grinder {in the prison}.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Often chained to two soldiers
Now when Herod was about to bring him [out], on that [very] night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door were watching the prison.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Said to be in hold
And they laid hands on them and put [them] in custody until the next day, because it was already evening.