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 the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.
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and say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace."'"
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For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because he had married her.
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Prisons » Used for confining » Enemies taken captive
But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had 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 shut him up and bound him in prison.
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And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.
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He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
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Prisons » Used for confining » Persons accused of heresy
But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.
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And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.
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they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison.
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Prisons » Used for confining » Condemned criminals till executed
And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people. So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
And they put him in custody, till the will of the LORD should be clear to them.
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Prisons » Used for confining » Debtors till they paid
Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.
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He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt.
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Prisons » Used for confining » Suspected persons
if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households,
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Prisons » Used for confining » Persons accused of crimes
a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder
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