Thematic Bible: Persons confined in
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Prisons » Persons confined in » Sometimes allowed to be visited by their friends
He ordered the centurion that he should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.
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Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Messiah, he sent [a message] by his disciples
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I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.'
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Prisons » Persons confined in » Often subjected to extreme suffering
They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
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Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
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to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;
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Prisons » Persons confined in » Often bound with fetters
For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her.
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If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
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They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
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Prisons » Persons confined in » Often executed in
and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.
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but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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Prisons » Persons confined in » Often fastened in stocks
'The LORD has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
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who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
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Prisons » Persons confined in » Often placed in dungeons
who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
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Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of Judah.
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Prisons » Persons confined in » Might have their condition ameliorated by the king
Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you 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 into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Prisons » Persons confined in » Said to be in ward
They put him in custody, until the will of the LORD should be declared to them.
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Prisons » Persons confined in » Clothed in prison dress
and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:
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Prisons » Persons confined in » Fed on bread and water
Say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace."'"
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Prisons » Persons confined in » Often kept to hard labor
The Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes. And they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.
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Prisons » Persons confined in » Often chained to two soldiers
The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
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Prisons » Persons confined in » Said to be in hold
They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
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