Quotes about Imprisonment
and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.
- Numbers 15:34
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.
- Judges 16:21
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.’”
- 1 Kings 22:27
And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
- 2 Kings 23:33
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 18:26
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.
- Ezra 7:26
What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
- Job 12:14
He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
- Psalm 78:61
They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
- Isaiah 24:22
For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
- Jeremiah 32:3
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.
- Jeremiah 37:15
So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.
- Jeremiah 37:16