Bible Verses About Prisons

So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.

But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”

So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.

Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.

As for you,because of the blood of My covenant,I will release your prisonersfrom the waterless pit.

Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.

Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.

Meanwhile John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and he sent his disciples

and sent to have John beheaded in the prison.

But he refused. Instead, he went and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay his debt.

I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’

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.

“Lord,” said Peter, “I am ready to go with You even to prison and to death.”

(Barabbas had been imprisoned for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)

They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.

and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

He arrested him and put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.

On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.

After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.

And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.