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and had him thrown into prison, where the king’s prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsEmployers, Bad ExamplesPrisonsjail

The warden put all the prisoners who were in the prison under Joseph’s authority, and he was responsible for everything that was done there.

Verse ConceptsResponsibility, Examples OfPrison KeepersEntrustingDoing One's Workjail

The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.

Verse ConceptsFindingSuccessGod With Specific PeopleSuccess Through God

and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard in the prison where Joseph was confined.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisons

The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

The Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were confined in the prison, each had a dream. Both had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.

Verse ConceptsVisions At Night

So he asked Pharaoh's officers, who were with him in prison in his master's house, "Why are you so sad today?"

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsOther Sad People

But when all goes well for you, remember that I was with you. Please show kindness to me by mentioning me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison.

Verse ConceptsRemembering PeoplePeople Releasing Othersjail

For truly I was taken by force from the land of the Hebrews; and I have done nothing for which I might be put in prison.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsKidnappingImmigrants

After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for birds.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyHeadsRemoving HeadsAnimals Eating PeopleLifting HeadsEating CorpsesBirds EatingPeople Hung To Death

Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards -- me and the chief baker.

Verse ConceptsBakingCaptainsNamed People Angry With Others

Then Pharaoh sent and called [for] Joseph, and they brought him quickly from the prison. And he shaved and changed his clothing, and came to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsPrisonersShavingPrisonsAccommodationsChanging ClothesIndividuals RunningClean ClothesKings SummoningPeople Set Free By PeopleEtiquette

Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersSpyingPeople Sending People

Then Joseph locked them all together in prison for three days.

Verse ConceptsThree Daysjail

If ye are honest, let one of your brethren remain bound in the house of your prison, but go ye, carry grain for the hunger of your households;

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPeople Providing Food

The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose.

Verse ConceptsSpying

Bring your youngest brother to me; then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. Then I will return your [imprisoned] brother [back] to you, and you may trade and do business in the land.’”

Verse ConceptsTradeThe Youngest ChildSpyingReinstating People

And it came to pass, at midnight, that Yahweh, smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat upon his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive who was in the pit of his prison, - and every firstborn of beasts.

Verse ConceptsLivestockDungeonsDeath penaltyPrisonersRetributionThroneAnger Of God, Examples OfMiracles Of Moses And AaronMidnightDeath Of The FirstbornGod KillingKilling Domesticated AnimalsGreat And SmallImprisonmentsBoth Men And Animals KilledAngel Of DeathGod Killed The PeoplesFamily Death

And Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which you came out of Egypt, out of your prison-house, be kept for ever in memory; for by the strength of his hand the Lord has taken you out from this place; let no leavened bread be used.

Verse ConceptsCelebrationsHand Of GodHistoryYeastStrength Of GodLeaving EgyptGroups Of Slavesslavery

And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house:

Verse ConceptsStrength Of GodAskingWhat Is This?Groups Of SlavesTeaching ChildrenGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Is GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

Verse ConceptsForgettingBeing BewareGroups Of SlavesGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egyptslavery

But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerGod, Power OfHand Of GodOaths, DivineRedemption, In OtGod's HandGod Swearing BlessingsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod's Love For Israel

Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;

Verse ConceptsComplacencyAttitudes Of PrideCarePride, Results OfGroups Of SlavesGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerBad InfluenceGod's WaysPurity, Moral And SpiritualRebellion, Against GodSatan, Agents OfSatan, As DeceiverMisleading DreamsFalse Prophets DenouncedGroups Of SlavesWalking In God's WayDeath Penalty For HeresyGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptDreams And False Prophets

Let him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because it was his purpose to make you false to the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfGroups Of SlavesInstructions About StoningGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:

Verse ConceptsCaptivity, Of IsraelJourneySigns From GodSustaining ProvidenceGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

The Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, The Lord the God of Israel, has said, I took you up from Egypt, out of the prison-house;

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtMessengerGroups Of SlavesGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

When they really started celebrating, they said, "Call for Samson so he can entertain us!" So they summoned Samson from the prison and he entertained them. They made him stand between two pillars.

Verse ConceptsAmusementsLeisure, And PastimesRecreationRevelryMaking FunSports

Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will strike from Jeroboam all that pisseth against the wall, and whatsoever is in prison or forsaken in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as men take away a dung hill, till it be consumed.

Verse Conceptsdung and manureDefecationUrinatingDeath Of All MalesGod Will Kill His People

and thou shalt say - Thus, saith the king, Put this man into the prison, - and let him eat the bread of oppression, with the water of oppression, until I enter in peace.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRevenge, Examples OfWaters Of AfflictionRepulsive Food

Then found the king of Assyria, in Hosea, a conspiracy, in that he had sent messengers unto So king of Egypt, and had not brought up a present 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.

Verse ConceptsArrestingMessengers Sent OutenvoyConspiraciesImprisonmentsPrisonersTaxationPrisons

And it came to pass, in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, - that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of prison;

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Lifting HeadsPeople Set Free By PeopleKings of judah

and changed his prison garments, - and he did eat bread continually before him, all the days of his life.

Verse ConceptsDistinctive Clothing

And Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was enraged with him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofAnger, HumanImprisonmentsOppression, Nature OfPrisonersProphets, Lives OfSpiteTemperAnger, Sinful ExamplesVindictiveness

and ye shall say, Thus, saith the king, Put ye this one into the prison, - and feed him with the bread of oppression, and with the water of oppression, until I return in peace.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersVindictivenessWaters Of Affliction

Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison."

Verse ConceptsCriminalsCivil authoritiesBanishmentGovernmentCivic DutiesImprisonmentsLoyaltyPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMagistratesCitizenshipConfiscationAnarchyJudicial PunishmentBreaking God's Law

And the children of the captivity, which were come out of prison, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel: twelve bullocks for all Israel, six and ninety rams, seven and seventy lambs, twelve goats for a sin offering, all to the burnt offering of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsGoatsThe Number TwelveSacrifice, In OtSin OfferingThe Number NinetyTwelve TribesTwelve AnimalsSeventiesNinetiesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForHumiliation

And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

Verse ConceptsenlightenmentLight, SpiritualRemnantGod Is GraciousPegsA Short TimeSurvivors FavouredShort Time For Actionrevivalspacegraciousness

For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsKindnessUnkindnessWallsArchaeologyGod Not ForsakingGroups Of Slavesslaveryrevival

Palal the son of Uzai, over against the angle, and the high tower that lies out from the king's house, which was by the court of the prison. After him, Pedaiah the son of Parosh.

Verse ConceptsThe Angle

And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfAngerAggressionAnger Of God, DescriptionListeningRestraintSin, And God's CharacterLoving Kindness Of GodSelf WillGod Not ForsakingMaking SlavesA Forgiving GodSpeed Of God's AngerAnger And Forgiveness

And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.

Verse ConceptsGatesNamed Gates

There, are those let out free which have been in prison, so that they hear no more the voice of the oppressor.

Verse ConceptsNo Trouble

If He passes by and throws someone in prison
or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

He strips away the authority of kings to punish and puts them in prison clothes instead.

Verse ConceptsGod Freeing Captives

But if they be laid in prison and chains, or bound with the bonds of poverty:


“[Crush and] hide them in the dust together;
Shut them up in the hidden place [the house of death].

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheCreatures Returning To DustPeople Hiding Peopledust

The strange children shall fail, and be afraid out of their prisons. {TYNDALE: And the aliens that shrink away shall tremble for fear in their defended places.}

Verse ConceptsForeignersHeart, HumanHuman EmotionGroups TremblingForeigners Included Among The PeopleBeing Scared


You brought us into the net;
You laid a heavy burden [of servitude] on us.

Verse ConceptsBackMonotonyGod Appointed AfflictionsGod Trappingpressure

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me, and made me to be abhorred of them. I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth.

Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessAbandoning FriendsShutting DoorsFriends FailingPeople Being HatedBest Friendsshunning

who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong; who feedeth the hungry. The LORD looseth men out of prison;

Verse ConceptsPrisonersGod And The PoorGod Does Right For PeopleGod Feeds All The EarthGod Freeing CaptivesFeeding The Poorhunger

For out of the prison-house he came forth to reign, although he was born poor in his kingdom.

Verse ConceptsPoor PeopleKings And Pridejail

I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter's snare; her heart is like a hunter's net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Verse ConceptsSexual ChastityWomen Doing WrongMan TrappingGodly WomanBitternessBreaking Chainsnagging

Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersCities Under AttackImprisonments

And they shall be brought together, as an assemblage of prisoners for the pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

Verse ConceptsPrisoners


“Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirp;
I coo like a dove.
My eyes look wistfully upward;
O Lord, I am oppressed, take my side and be my security.

Verse ConceptsdovesdiscouragementPrayer In DiscouragementSwallowsCauses of failure in

But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says, "Bring that back!"

Verse ConceptsPlunderingRescueTrapPrisonscredibilityjail

The one who suffers will soon be released; he will not die in prison, he will not go hungry.

Verse ConceptsPeople Releasing Others

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Verse ConceptsChrist Would Be Killedclosure

Yea, the truth is laid in prison, and he that refraineth himself from evil must be spoiled. When the LORD saw this, it displeased him sore that there was nowhere any equity.

Verse ConceptsHuntingDivine DispleasureDispleasureGod Paid Attention To ThemMissing Someoneshunning

I will be found of you, sayeth the LORD. And will deliver you out of prison, and gather you together again out of all places, wherein I have scattered you, sayeth the LORD: and will bring you again to the same place, from whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRestoring NationsGathering IsraelFinding GodPromise of return

The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be an overseer in the house of the Lord for every man who is off his head and is acting as a prophet, to put such men in prison and in chains.

Verse ConceptsMadmenDeposed PriestsExchange Of IndividualsReckoned Insane

For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardPrisonersActual Attacks On Jerusalem

So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsNegotiationRedemption, In Everyday Life

And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.

Verse ConceptsJews, TheJudaismScribesReal EstateSignatures

And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

Verse ConceptsPrisonersShutting SecurelySpeaking Again

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,

Verse ConceptsGroups Of SlavesCovenant Made At SinaiGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am in prison, so that I may not come into the house of the LORD:

(Now Jeremiah had not yet been put in prison. So he was still free to come and go among the people as he pleased.

Verse ConceptsGoing Out And Coming In

The officials were very angry at Jeremiah. They had him flogged and put in prison in the house of Jonathan, the royal secretary, which they had converted into a place for confining prisoners.

Verse ConceptsArrestingCruelty, examples ofFloggingAnger, HumanHousesImprisonmentsPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects Ofjail

So Jeremiah was put in prison in a cell in the dungeon in Jonathan's house. He was kept there for a long time.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsStaying A Long Time

Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, "What crime have I committed against you, or the officials who serve you, or the people of Judah? What have I done to make you people throw me into prison?

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsWronging Other People

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodBakersBakingProphets, Lives OfRoadsPrisonsOnce A Day

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsInjuryMonotonyPersecution, Forms OfPersecution, Nature OfPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRopesSuffering, Causes OfCisternsLowering PeopleMarshes

"My lord the king, whereas these men meddle with Jeremiah the prophet, they do him wrong: Namely, in that they have put him in prison, there to die of hunger for there is no more bread in the city."

Verse ConceptsHunger, Examples OfDungeonsAfflicted To DeathFamine Killing

So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Verse ConceptsDungeons

So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

Verse ConceptsImprisonments

Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

Verse ConceptsPeople Set Free By Peopleliberation

Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

Verse ConceptsCourtyardPrisoners

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.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisonsLifelongKings ExiledBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Lifting HeadsPeople Set Free By People

Jehoiachin took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king's presence for the rest of his life.

Verse ConceptsLifelongDistinctive Clothing

(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.

Verse ConceptsChainsGoing OutsideImprisonments

They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsKilling Israelites

I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsCalling upon GodSaved From The PitI Pray

They put him in a collar with hooks; they brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him to prison so that his voice would not be heard any longer on the mountains of Israel.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersCagesMan Trapping

I sank to the roots of the mountains; the earth's prison bars closed around me forever. Yet you resurrect the dead from the Pit, LORD my God!

Verse ConceptsPitsRootsSaved From The PitMan Going DownGod Lifting PeopleNot DyingBase Of ThingsDeath PreventedPits As A Term For Graves

For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerFreedom, Acts Of In OtRedemption, In Everyday LifeGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod's InterventionslaveryServant Leadership

Turn you now to the stronghold, ye that be in prison, and long sore to be delivered: And this day I bring the word, that I will reward thee double again.

Verse ConceptsHope, In GodHope, Results OfRestoring NationsGod Being Our RefugeDouble PortionsHope In Hard TimesHope And FaithTragedy