Bible Verses About Prisons

When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted 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 that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk 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.

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

And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time 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 hast paid the uttermost farthing.

Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of 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 the debt.

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 Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.

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

(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)

And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.

And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

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

¶ Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.

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