From Nave’s Topical Bible
Prison
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 13Passages listed
- 7Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningGenesis 39:20Genesis 42:16–19Leviticus 24:12Numbers 15:34Ezra 7:26Jeremiah 52:11Luke 23:19Acts 4:3Acts 12:4Acts 12:5
- Public ward ofActs 5:18
- Cells ofActs 16:24
- Court ofJeremiah 33:1
- Dungeon in
- See Dungeon
- See Imprisonment
- See Prisoners
The passages, in Bible order (13)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 13 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 39:20
So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
Commentary on Genesis 39:201 voice
Therefore I might say Joseph was happier when he was put into prison, because he was giving witness on behalf of chastity. For modesty is a good gift but one of lesser merit when it involves no risk. Where, however, it is maintained at the risk of one's safety, there it wins a more abundant crown. With his case unheard, his truthfulness unexamined, Joseph is sent into prison as if guilty of a crime. But the Lord did not abandon him even in prison.
Ambrose of Milan· On Joseph the PatriarchPatristic
- Genesis 42:16–19
Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
- Leviticus 24:12
They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
Commentary on Leviticus 24:121 voice
The offender may already have been pronounced guilty by the rulers (see Exo 18:21-22), and the case was referred to Moses in order that the punishment might be awarded by the divine decree. No law had as yet been enacted against blasphemy except by implication. See Exo 21:17; Exo 22:28.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Numbers 15:34
and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.
Commentary on Numbers 15:341 voice
Death had indeed been assigned as the penalty Exo 31:14; Exo 35:2; but it had not been determined how that death was to be inflicted.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Ezra 7:26
If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
Commentary on Ezra 7:261 voice
Whether it be unto death - These include almost every species of punishment which should be inflicted on culprits in any civilized state. With this verse the Chaldee part of this chapter ends.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Jeremiah 33:1
While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:
Commentary on Jeremiah 33:11 voice
Moreover the word of the Lord - This was in the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah, Jeremiah being still shut up in prison: but he was now in the court of the prison, where the elders and the king’s officers, etc., might consult him with the greater ease; for they continued to inquire, foolishly thinking, that if he would but prophesy good things, that these must come, or that he had sufficient power with God to induce him to alter his mind, - destroy the Chaldeans, and deliver the city.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Jeremiah 52:11
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
Commentary on Jeremiah 52:112 voices
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah,.... After he had seen his children and princes executed, which must be very terrible to him; See Gill on Jer 39:7; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon; in Jer 39:7; it is said, he bound him, "to carry him" there; here it is affirmed he did carry him thither: and it is added, and put him in prison till the day of his death; from this place only we learn that King Zedekiah was put into a prison, and died a prisoner.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Put him in prison ... - Not found in 2 Kings, for in the contemporaneous history what befell Zedekiah at Riblah would alone be known. It was no doubt added by the same hand which inserted the account of the deportations to Babylon.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Luke 23:19
(Barabbas had been imprisoned for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)
Commentary on Luke 23:192 voices
Therefore he adds: Who for a certain sedition made in the city and for murder had been cast into prison, and thus he was seditious and a murderer, and moreover a robber, as is said in John 18: "Now Barabbas was a robber." From this …
Bonaventure· Commentary on Luke, Chapter 23, 1257Patristic
Not unreasonably do they seek the pardon of a murderer, who were themselves demanding the death of the innocent. Such are the laws of iniquity, that what innocence hates, guilt loves. And here the interpretation of the name affords a figurative resemblance, for Barabbas is in Latin, the son of a father. Those then to whom it is said, Ye are of your father the Devil, are represented as about to prefer to the true Son of God the son of their father, that is, Antichrist.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by AquinasPatristic
- Acts 4:3
They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.
Commentary on Acts 4:32 voices
"And they put them in custody until the morning." So the Jews dealt with the apostles and guarded them, wishing to humble them, while the prolonged time made the apostles all the more fearless.
Theophylact of Ohrid· Commentary on ActsPatristic
Put them in hold - That is, they took them into “custody,” or into safe keeping. Probably they committed them to the care of a guard. Eventide - Evening. It was not convenient to assemble the council at night. This was, moreover, the time for the evening prayer or sacrifice, and it was not usual to assemble the Sanhedrin at that hour.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Acts 5:18
and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
Commentary on Acts 5:182 voices
And laid their hands on the apostles,.... That is, laid hold on them, and took them, and carried them away; at least their servants did so, by their orders: and put them in the common prison; where malefactors were put; and this both for greater security, and for greater disgrace.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
"Were filled with envy" means that they were aroused, agitated by what was being said. Now they attack the apostles with greater ferocity, but do not immediately begin to judge them, thinking that the public prison would strike them more forcefully. Look, if you will, …
Theophylact of Ohrid· Commentary on ActsPatristic
- Acts 12:4
He arrested him and put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
Commentary on Acts 12:41 voice
"four squads of four." That is, the total number sixteen; for four times four makes sixteen. Perhaps at each watch, that is, in the third watch, there were four guards. There are four guards called a tri-hour watch, as the twelve hours of the whole …
Oecumenius· Commentary on ActsPatristic
- Acts 12:5
So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.
Commentary on Acts 12:52 voices
And again when Simon was bound in prison, it is written that the whole church prayed. And in every place is it written concerning the Apostles that they fasted and prayed, for they also tarried in this service of fasting and abstinence after they had …
Philoxenus of Mabbug· 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On AbstinencePatristic
But prayer was made - The church was apprised of his imprisonment and danger, and had no resource but to apply to God by prayer. In scenes of danger there is no other refuge; and the result shows that even in most discouraging circumstances God can hear prayer. Nothing scarcely could appear more hopeless than the idea of rescuing Peter out of the hands of Herod, and out of the prison, and out of the custody of sixteen men, by prayer. But the prayer of faith Was prevalent with God. Without ceasing - Intense, steady, ardent prayer.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Acts 16:24
On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.