'Prisoners' in the Bible

So Joseph’s master took him and put him into the jail, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the jail.

The chief jailer committed to Joseph’s charge all the prisoners who were in the jail; so that whatever was done there, he was responsible for it.

“The prisoners are at ease together;They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

God makes a home for the lonely;He leads out the prisoners into prosperity,Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

For the Lord hears the needyAnd does not despise His who are prisoners.

There were those who dwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death,Prisoners in misery and chains,

Who executes justice for the oppressed;Who gives food to the hungry.The Lord sets the prisoners free.

Who made the world like a wildernessAnd overthrew its cities,Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’

They will be gathered togetherLike prisoners in the dungeon,And will be confined in prison;And after many days they will be punished.

To open blind eyes,To bring out prisoners from the dungeonAnd those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,Because the Lord has anointed meTo bring good news to the afflicted;He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,To proclaim liberty to captivesAnd freedom to prisoners;

To crush under His feetAll the prisoners of the land,

As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you,I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

Return to the stronghold, O prisoners who have the hope;This very day I am declaring that I will restore double to you.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan cohort named Julius.

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;

For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.

Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves also are in the body.