Bible Verses About Prisons

When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of Judah.

He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.

They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.

Now when Yochanan heard in the prison the works of Messiah, he sent two of his disciples

and he sent and beheaded Yochanan in the prison.

He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

For Herod himself had sent out and arrested Yochanan, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.

He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.

They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

and laid hands on the emissaries, and put them in public custody.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

When Herod had sought for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.

When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,