41 Bible Verses about Imprisonments
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Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering, as though you were suffering as they are.
Come to an agreement quickly with the one who has a legal case against you. Do it before he turns the case over to the judge and you are thrown into jail. Take it from me; you will stay in jail until you pay the very last penny of your fine.
For example when an opponent brings you to court, try to settle before you get there. Otherwise, he will drag you in front of a judge and the judge will hand you over to an officer who will throw you into prison.
Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil (false accuser) (Devil) is about to throw you into prison, that you may be tested. You will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful even if you must die, and I will give you the crown of life.
If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him. This is by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison.
So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard. It was the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.
Hoshea's treachery became clear to the king of Assyria. He had sent representatives to the king of Egypt. He did not send his offering to the king of Assyria like he did in previous years. So the king of Assyria had him put in chains and locked in prison.
Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze shackles. The king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in a prison, where he stayed until he died.
He would not give him time. He put him into prison till he paid the debt.
He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation. They held him in custody until they decided what to do with him.
Barabbas, a rebel and a murderer was available for this purpose.
He was thrown into prison for insurrection (sedition) in the city and murder.
Even before all these things, they will capture you, and persecute you. You will be delivered to synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.
and threw Joseph in the same prison where the king's prisoners were kept. While Joseph was in prison, Jehovah helped him and was good to him. He even made the jailer like Joseph so much that he put him in charge of the other prisoners and of everything that was done in the jail.
Remember me when things go well for you. Please do me a favor. Mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison. I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews. And here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.
One of you must go and get him. The rest of you will be kept under guard until the truth of what you say can be tested. Otherwise, as sure as the king lives, you are spies. He put all of them together in prison for three days.
Tell them: 'It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.'
Asa was so angry with the prophet that he had him put in chains. It was at this same time that Asa began treating some of the people cruelly.
At that time the army of the king of Babylon was blockading Jerusalem. The prophet Jeremiah was locked up in the courtyard of the prison. This prison was in the palace of the king of Judah. When King Zedekiah of Judah locked up Jeremiah, Zedekiah asked him: Why are you prophesying? You are saying, 'this is what Jehovah says: I am going to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
The officials were so angry with Jeremiah that they beat him and put him in prison in the scribe Jonathan's house, which had been turned into a prison.
and threw Joseph in the same prison where the king's prisoners were kept. While Joseph was in prison,
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in prison. Concerning the rest of you, carry grain for the famine of your households,
The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with copper chains. They put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.
In the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin king of Judah had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison. He said kind things to him and placed his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. His prison clothing was changed. He was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
Then King Ahab ordered one of his officers: Arrest Micaiah and take him to Amon, the governor of the city, and to Prince Joash.
When he apprehended him, he put him in prison. He turned him over to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him. After Passover he would be presented to the people.
Receiving this command he threw them into the inner prison, and fastened their feet in the stocks.
What he tears down cannot be rebuilt. The man he imprisons cannot be released.
He blocked my way with cut stones. He twisted my roadways.
He built a wall around me so that I am unable to go out. He made a heavy chain for me.
Come to an agreement quickly with the one who has a legal case against you. Do it before he turns the case over to the judge and you are thrown into jail.
At midnight Jehovah killed every firstborn male in Egypt from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who ruled the land to the firstborn son of the prisoner in jail, and also every firstborn animal.
Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah: What crime have I committed against you, your administrators, or these people? Why have you put me in prison?
who made the world like a desert and tore down its cities and did not let his prisoners go home?'
