Prison

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Acts 12:4 NT

  When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

• Acts 12:5 NT

  Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

• Judges 16:21 OT

  The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

• 2 Kings 17:4 OT

  The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria seized him, and bound him in prison.

• Jeremiah 52:11 OT

  He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.

• Matthew 5:26 NT

  Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.

• Matthew 18:30 NT

  He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

• 1 Kings 22:27 OT

  Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”

• 2 Chronicles 16:10 OT

  Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

• Mark 6:17 NT

  For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.

• Ezra 7:26 OT

  Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

• Luke 22:33 NT

  He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

• Jeremiah 32:2 OT

  Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

• Jeremiah 37:15 OT

  The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

• Genesis 40:3 OT

  He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

• Acts 28:16 NT

  When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

• Acts 28:30 NT

  Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him,

• 2 Timothy 1:16-18 NT

  May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day);…

• Matthew 5:25 NT

  Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

• Jeremiah 39:6 OT

  Then the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s sons in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.

• Acts 16:24 NT

  who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

• Ezekiel 19:9 OT

  They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

• Acts 12:6 NT

  The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

• Jeremiah 29:26 OT

  “Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.