Bible Verses About Prisons

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because the LORD was with him; and that which he did, the LORD made it prosper.

He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;

but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

They put him in custody, until the LORD’s will should be declared to them.

The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

Say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”

The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

Whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me; because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

The LORD has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the LORD’s house, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.