Prisons used for Confining

15 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

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Condemned Persons Till Executed

Leviticus 24:12 They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
Acts 12:4–5 He arrested him and put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out to the people after the Passover. …

Matthew 5:26 Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.
Matthew 18:30 But he refused. Instead, he went and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay his debt.

Judges 16:21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
2 Kings 17:4 But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put …
Jeremiah 52:11 Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

Luke 23:19 (Barabbas had been imprisoned for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)

Acts 4:3 They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.
Acts 5:18 and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
Acts 8:3 But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

1 Kings 22:27 and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
2 Chronicles 16:10 Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
Mark 6:17 For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.

Genesis 42:19 If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.