Quotes about Prison
When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught.
- Genesis 40:6
Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand.”
- Genesis 40:11
But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.
- Genesis 40:14
And while their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.
- Judges 16:25
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 him in prison.
- 2 Kings 17:4
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
- 2 Kings 25:27
So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.
- 2 Kings 25:29
for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
- Psalm 137:3
Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.
- Psalm 142:7
For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.
- Ecclesiastes 4:14
Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison.
- Jeremiah 37:4
Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?
- Jeremiah 37:18