Prisoners Joseph
Genesis 39:23; Genesis 40; Genesis 41:44
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 38:28; Jeremiah 39:14
John the Baptist
Matthew 11:2; Matthew 14:12; Mark 6:17; Luke 3:20
Jesus
Matthew 26:75; Matthew 27; Mark 14:72; Mark 15; Luke 22:71; Luke 23; John 18:40; John 19
Apostles
Acts 5:42
Peter
Acts 12:19
Paul
Acts 16:40; Acts 21:40; Acts 22
Silas
Acts 16:40
Required to labor
Judges 16:21
Kept on bread and water of affliction
1 Kings 22:27
Kept in chains
Acts 12:6
Kept in stocks
Proverbs 7:22; Jeremiah 29:26; Acts 16:24
Confined in:
- Court of the palace
Jeremiah 32:2
- House of the scribe
Jeremiah 37:15
- House of captain of the guard
Genesis 40:3
Visited by friends
Matthew 11:2; Acts 24:23
Bound to soldiers
Acts 12:7
Severe hardships of, mitigated
Jeremiah 37:21
Cruelty to
- General references
Jeremiah 38:6; Lamentations 3:54
Captive
Keepers responsible for
Acts 12:19
Tortured to extort self-criminating testimony
Acts 22:24
Scourged
Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; Acts 16:23; Acts 16:33; 2 Corinthians 6:5; 2 Corinthians 11:24
Permitted to make defense
Acts 24:10; Acts 25:8; Acts 25:16; Acts 26:1; 2 Timothy 4:16
Kindness to:
- By the prison keeper to Jeremiah
Jeremiah 38:28
- By Philippian jailer to Paul
Acts 16:33
- By Felix
Acts 24:23
- By Julius, the centurion
Acts 27:1; Acts 27:3; Acts 28:16; Acts 28:31
To be visited and ministered to
Matthew 25:46
Released at feasts
Matthew 27:17; Mark 15:6; Luke 23:17; John 18:39
Of war:
- Put to death
Joshua 10:27; 1 Samuel 15:33; 1 Samuel 27:11; 2 Samuel 12:31; 2 Kings 25:7; 1 Chronicles 20:3; Hosea 13:16; Amos 1:13; Lamentations 3:34
- Put to death by divine command
Numbers 31:9; Numbers 31:17
- Thumbs and toes cut off
Judges 1:7
- Blinded
2 Kings 25:7
Captive
- Consolations for
Psalms 69:33; Psalms 79:11; Psalms 102:20; Psalms 146:7
Captive; Imprisonment
Figurative
Isaiah 61:1; Luke 4:18