Bible Verses About Prisons: Persons under the king's displeasure

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.’”

Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.

For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.