Prison

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Bible verses about “Prison”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Genesis 39:20And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
• Genesis 42:16Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
• Genesis 42:17And he put them all together into ward three days.
• Genesis 42:18And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
• Genesis 42:19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
• Leviticus 24:12And they put him in ward, that the mind of the Lord might be shewed them.
• Numbers 15:34And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
• Ezra 7:26And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
• Jeremiah 52:11Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
• Luke 23:19(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
• Acts 4:3And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
• Acts 12:4And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
• Acts 12:5Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
• Acts 5:18And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
• Acts 16:24Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
• Jeremiah 33:1Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,