Prisoners

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,

And the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.

When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked Israel and captured some prisoners.

God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,

They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.

…to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

…to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.

As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

…and requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

All who heard him were astounded and asked, “Isn’t this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem on those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, presuming that the prisoners had escaped.

When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.

The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.

For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.