Bible Verses About Prisons

When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee, that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

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

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

Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art with him in the way; lest haply the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the last farthing.

Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Christ, he sent by his disciples

and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay that which was due.

naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife; for he had married her.

And he said unto him, Lord, with thee I am ready to go both to prison and to death.

one who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.

And they laid hands on them, and put them in ward unto the morrow: for it was now eventide.

and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public ward.

But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.

And when he had taken him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison: but prayer was made earnestly of the church unto God for him.

And when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and guards before the door kept the prison.

And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judæa to Cæsarea, and tarried there.

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: