Thematic Bible: Used for confining
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Prisons » Used for confining » Persons under the king's displeasure
Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison [in the stocks], for he was enraged with him because of this. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
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and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this man in prison, and feed him sparingly with the bread and water until I return safely.”’”
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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.
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Prisons » Used for confining » Enemies taken captive
But the king of Assyria discovered a conspiracy in Hoshea, who sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria arrested him and bound him in prison.
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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.
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Then the king of Babylon blinded Zedekiah, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon and there he put him in prison [in a mill] until the day of his death.
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Prisons » Used for confining » Persons accused of heresy
But Saul began ravaging the church [and assaulting believers]; entering house after house and dragging off men and women, putting them in prison.
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So they arrested them and put them in jail until the next day, because it was evening.
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They arrested the apostles and put them in a public jail.
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Prisons » Used for confining » Condemned criminals till executed
And when he had seized [Peter], he put him in prison and delivered him to four squads of soldiers of four each to guard him, purposing after the Passover to bring him forth to the people. So Peter was kept in prison, but fervent prayer for him was persistently made to God by the church (assembly).
They put him in custody until the will and command of the Lord might be made clear to them.
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Prisons » Used for confining » Debtors till they paid
Prisons » Used for confining » Suspected persons
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,
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Prisons » Used for confining » Persons accused of crimes
(He was one who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection that happened in the city, and for murder.)
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