5344 imprisonment
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Being confined in prison is used both literally and figuratively in Scripture. Release from prison is used as a picture of freedom from spiritual bondage.

The anticipation or threat of imprisonment

Matthew 5:25-26 pp Luke 12:58 See also Acts 20:23; Revelation 2:10

Imprisonment for law-breaking

Ezra 7:26 See also Genesis 40:3; 2 Kings 17:4; Jeremiah 52:11; Matthew 18:30

Imprisonment while on remand

Numbers 15:33-34 See also Leviticus 24:12; Matthew 27:16 pp Mark 15:7 pp Luke 23:19

Imprisonment of the innocent, often with malicious intent

Jeremiah 38:28; Luke 21:12 See also Genesis 39:20-22; Genesis 40:14-15; Genesis 42:16-17 Joseph planning the welfare of his brothers; 1 Kings 22:27 Ahab orders Micaiah's imprisonment; 2 Chronicles 16:10; Jeremiah 32:2-3; Jeremiah 37:15; Matthew 14:3 John the Baptist imprisoned by Herod; Acts 8:3; Acts 16:23-24 Paul and Silas in prison; Acts 22:4,19; Acts 23:29; Acts 24:27; Acts 26:10,31; 2 Corinthians 6:5; Corinthians 11:23; Hebrews 11:36

Release from imprisonment

By earthly rulers

Genesis 41:14; 2 Kings 25:27 pp Jeremiah 52:31; Jeremiah 39:13-14

By divine intervention

Psalm 146:7 See also Psalm 68:6; Psalm 102:20; Psalm 107:10-14; Psalm 142:7; Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 49:9; Isaiah 51:14; Isaiah 61:1; Acts 12:1-11

Imprisonment used in a figurative or poetic sense

Luke 4:18 See also Isaiah 61:1; Job 11:10; Job 12:14; Psalm 66:11; Ecclesiastes 4:14; Romans 7:23; Galatians 3:22-23; 1 Peter 3:19; Revelation 20:7

See also

2321  Christ as redeemer
5098  John the Baptist
5246  captivity
5364  key
5460  prison
5461  prisoners
5482  punishment
5507  rope and cord
6020  sin
6658  freedom
6723  redemption, NT
7449  slavery, spiritual



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