Bible Verses About Prison: General references

Yosef's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept; and there he was in the prison.

Send one of you, and let him bring your brother. Meanwhile, you will be kept in custody. This will prove whether there is any truth in what you say. Otherwise, as Pharaoh lives, you are certainly spies."

Then he put all of them together in prison for three days.

On the third day, Yosef said to them, "Do what I say, and stay alive, for I fear God.

If you are upright men, let one of your brothers remain incarcerated in the prison you're being kept in, while you go and carry grain back to relieve the famine in your homes.

They put him under guard until ADONAI would tell them what to do.

They kept him in custody, because it had not yet been decided what to do to him.

Whoever refuses to obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him swiftly, whether it be death, banishment, confiscation of goods or imprisonment."

Then the king of Bavel put out Tzidkiyahu's eyes, bound him in chains, carried him off to Bavel and kept him in prison until the day of his death.

(He was a man who had been thrown in prison for causing a riot in the city and for murder.)

The Temple police arrested them; and since it was already evening, they put them in custody overnight.

so when Herod seized him, he threw him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each, with the intention of bringing him to public trial after Pesach.

So Kefa was being held under watch in prison, but intense prayer was being made to God on his behalf by the Messianic community.