Prisons
48 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
36 sections
- Antiquity of
- Bondage to Sin and Satan
- Confinement In, Considered a Severe Punishment
- Confinement In, often Awarded As a Punishment
- Deep Afflictions
- Dungeons Attached To
- Hell
- Keepers of Often Used Severity
- Keepers of Put to Death If Prisoners Escaped
- Keepers of Responsible for the Prisoners
- Keepers of Sometimes Acted Kindly
- Keepers of Sometimes Entrusted the Care of the Prison To
- Keepers of Strictly Guarded the Doors
- Kinds of, Mentioned: Common
- Kinds of, Mentioned: State
- Magistrates had Power to Commit To
- Magistrates had Power to Release From
- Persons Confined in Clothed in Prison Dress
- Persons Confined in Fed on Bread and Water
- Persons Confined in Might Have Their Condition Ameliorated by the King
- Persons Confined in Often Bound with Fetters
- Persons Confined in Often Chained to Two Soldiers
- Persons Confined in Often Executed In
- Persons Confined in Often Fastened in Stocks
- Persons Confined in Often Kept to Hard Labour
- Persons Confined in Often Placed in Dungeons
- Persons Confined in Often Subjected to Extreme Suffering
- Persons Confined in Said to be in Hold
- Persons Confined in Said to be in Ward
- Persons Confined in Sometimes Allowed to be Visited by Their Friends
- Places Used as Court of the King's House
- Places Used as House of the Captain of the Guard
- Places Used as House of the King's Scribe
- Places Used as Prisoner's own House, where he Was Kept Bound to a Soldier
- The King had Power to Commit To
- The King had Power to Release From
Antiquity of
- Genesis 39:20 So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
Bondage to Sin and Satan
- Isaiah 42:7 to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
- Isaiah 49:9 to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.
- Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
Confinement In, Considered a Severe Punishment
- Luke 22:33 “Lord,” said Peter, “I am ready to go with You even to prison and to death.”
Confinement In, often Awarded As a Punishment
- Ezra 7:26 If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
Deep Afflictions
- Psalm 142:7 Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.
Dungeons Attached To
- Jeremiah 38:6 So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank …
- Zechariah 9:11 As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
Hell
- Revelation 20:7 When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,
Keepers of Often Used Severity
- Jeremiah 37:16 So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.
- Jeremiah 37:20 But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”
- Acts 16:24 On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Keepers of Put to Death If Prisoners Escaped
- Acts 12:19 After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.
Keepers of Responsible for the Prisoners
- Acts 16:23 And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.
- Acts 16:27 When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, presuming that the prisoners had escaped.
Keepers of Sometimes Acted Kindly
- Genesis 39:21 the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
- Acts 16:33–34 At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized. …
Keepers of Sometimes Entrusted the Care of the Prison To
- Genesis 39:22–23 And the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison. …
Keepers of Strictly Guarded the Doors
- Acts 12:6 On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.
Kinds of, Mentioned: Common
- Acts 5:18 and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
Kinds of, Mentioned: State
- Jeremiah 37:21 So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard …
- Genesis 39:20 So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
Magistrates had Power to Commit To
- Matthew 5:25 Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.
Magistrates had Power to Release From
- Acts 16:35–36 When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order: “Release those men.” …
Persons Confined in Clothed in Prison Dress
- 2 Kings 25:29 So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.
Persons Confined in Fed on Bread and Water
- 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.’”
Persons Confined in Might Have Their Condition Ameliorated by the King
- Jeremiah 37:20–21 But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.” …
Persons Confined in Often Bound with Fetters
- 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.
- Ezekiel 19:9 With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.
- 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.
Persons Confined in Often Chained to Two Soldiers
- Acts 12:6 On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.
Persons Confined in Often Executed In
- Genesis 40:22 But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.
- Matthew 14:10 and sent to have John beheaded in the prison.
Persons Confined in Often Fastened in Stocks
- Jeremiah 29:26 ‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet — you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
- Acts 16:24 On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Persons Confined in Often Kept to Hard Labour
- 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.
Persons Confined in Often Placed in Dungeons
- Jeremiah 39:6 There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.
- Acts 16:24 On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Persons Confined in Often Subjected to Extreme Suffering
- Psalm 79:11 May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
- Psalm 102:20 to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
- Psalm 105:18 They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
Persons Confined in Said to be in Hold
- Acts 4:3 They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.
Persons Confined in Said to be in Ward
- Leviticus 24:12 They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
Persons Confined in Sometimes Allowed to be Visited by Their Friends
- Matthew 11:2 Meanwhile John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and he sent his disciples
- Matthew 25:36 I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’
- Acts 24:23 He ordered the centurion to keep Paul under guard, but to allow him some freedom and permit his friends to minister to his needs.
Places Used as Court of the King's House
- Jeremiah 32:2 At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
Places Used as House of the Captain of the Guard
- Genesis 40:3 and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.
Places Used as House of the King's Scribe
- Jeremiah 37:15 The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
Places Used as Prisoner's own House, where he Was Kept Bound to a Soldier
- Acts 28:16 When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.
- Acts 28:30 Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit him.
- 2 Timothy 1:16–18 May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains. …
The King had Power to Commit To
- 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.’”
The King had Power to Release From
- Genesis 40:21 Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.