Prisoners

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Acts 25:1-27 NT

  Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him, asking a favor against him, that…

• Acts 26:1-32 NT

  Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense. “I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by…

• Acts 27:1-44 NT

  When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band. Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of…

• Acts 28:1-31 NT

  When we had escaped, then they learned that the island was called Malta. The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold. But when Paul had gathered…

• 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.

• 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.” ’ ”

• 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.

• Proverbs 7:22 OT

  He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

• 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.

• Acts 16:24 NT

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

• 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 24:23 NT

  He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

• Acts 12:7 NT

  And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.

• Jeremiah 37:20 OT

  Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”

• Jeremiah 37:21 OT

  Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the…

• Jeremiah 38:6 OT

  Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

• Lamentations 3:53 OT

  They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

• Lamentations 3:54 OT

  Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

• Acts 12:18 NT

  Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.

• Acts 12:19 NT

  When Herod had sought for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, then commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.

• Acts 22:24 NT

  the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

• Matthew 27:26 NT

  Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.