'Imprisonment' in the Bible
When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, 'We have sinned and gone astray; we have done evil.'
and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this [fellow in] the house of imprisonment and feed him reduced rations of food and water until I come in peace." '"
But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and he did not offer tribute to the king of Assyria as [he had] year after year; so the king of Assyria arrested him, and confined him [in] a house of imprisonment.
It happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month on the twenty-seventh of the month, lifted Evil-Merodach king of Babylon in the year that he became king, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from the house of imprisonment.
So he changed the clothes of his imprisonment, and he ate food continually in his presence all the days of his life.
When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, 'We have sinned and gone astray, we have done evil!'
And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
to open [the] blind eyes, to bring [the] prisoner out from [the] dungeon, those who sit [in] darkness from [the] house of imprisonment.
But this [is] a people plundered and looted; all of them are trapped in holes, and they are kept hidden in houses of imprisonment. They have become like plunder, and there is no one who saves; [like] booty, and there is no one who says, "Restore!"
Now Jeremiah [was] coming and going out in the midst of the people and they had not put him [in] the house of imprisonment.
So he changed the garments of his imprisonment and he ate food {before him} continually all the days of his life.
On the fifth day of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's imprisonment in exile,
‘Prepare the chain [for imprisonment], for the land is full of bloody crimes [murders committed under the pretense of civil justice] and the city is full of violence.
Then shouldn't this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?"
except that in town after town the Holy Spirit assures me that imprisonment and suffering are waiting for me.
I found that, although he was charged with questions about their Law, there was no charge against him deserving death or imprisonment.
As they were leaving, they began to say to each other, "This man hasn't been doing anything to deserve death or imprisonment."
and to Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen, who once shared my imprisonment. They are of note among the Apostles, and are Christians of longer standing than myself.
It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart, and you are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and establishment of the gospel.
Now I want you to know, believers, that what has happened to me [this imprisonment that was meant to stop me] has actually served to advance [the spread of] the good news [regarding salvation].
so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is in the cause of Christ.
Most of the brothers in the Lord have gained confidence from my imprisonment and dare even more to speak the message fearlessly.
the others proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely, seeking to cause me anxiety in my imprisonment.
This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. Remember my imprisonment. Grace be with you.
May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my imprisonment.
for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned.
appeal to you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.
I wanted to keep him with me, so that in my imprisonment for the gospel he might serve me in your place.
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
But when the thousand years are at an end, the Adversary will be released from his imprisonment,