'Prisoners' in the Bible
Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and taken my daughters away like prisoners of war!
and had him thrown into prison, where the king’s prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison.
The warden put all the prisoners who were in the prison under Joseph’s authority, and he was responsible for everything that was done there.
When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming on the Atharim road, he fought against Israel and captured some prisoners.
They brought the prisoners, animals, and spoils of war to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the Israelite community at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
“You are to remain outside the camp for seven days. All of you and your prisoners who have killed a person or touched the dead are to purify yourselves on the third day and the seventh day.
God provides homes for those who are deserted.He leads out the prisoners to prosperity,but the rebellious live in a scorched land.
For the Lord listens to the needyand does not despiseHis own who are prisoners.
Let the groans of the prisoners reach You;according to Your great power,preserve those condemned to die.
Others sat in darkness and gloom—prisoners in cruel chains—
executing justice for the exploitedand giving food to the hungry.The Lord frees prisoners.
There will be nothing to doexcept crouch among the prisonersor fall among the slain.In all this, His anger is not removed,and His hand is still raised to strike.
who turned the world into a wilderness,who destroyed its citiesand would not release the prisoners to return home?”
They will be gathered togetherlike prisoners in a pit.They will be confined to a dungeon;after many days they will be punished.
in order to open blind eyes,to bring out prisoners from the dungeon,and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.
saying to the prisoners: Come out,and to those who are in darkness: Show yourselves.They will feed along the pathways,and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.
The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me,because the Lord has anointed Meto bring good news to the poor.He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,to proclaim liberty to the captivesand freedom to the prisoners;
ל LamedCrushing all the prisoners of the landbeneath one’s feet,
All of them come to do violence;their faces are set in determination.They gather prisoners like sand.
As for you,because of the blood of your covenant,I will release your prisonersfrom the waterless cistern.
Return to a stronghold,you prisoners who have hope;today I declare that I will restore double to you.
and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
But all who heard him were astounded and said, “Isn’t this the man who, in Jerusalem, was destroying those who called on this name and then came here for the purpose of taking them as prisoners to the chief priests?”
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped.
as both the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. After I received letters from them to the brothers, I traveled to Damascus to bring those who were prisoners there to be punished in Jerusalem.
When it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Regiment.
The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that no one could swim away and escape.
For it says:When He ascended on high,He took prisoners into captivity;He gave gifts to people.
For you sympathized with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.
Remember the prisoners, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily.
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