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PRISONS

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Antiquity of

• Genesis 39:20

KINDS OF, MENTIONED

• Jeremiah 37:21
• Genesis 39:20

Dungeons attached to

• Jeremiah 38:6
• Zechariah 9:11

Were under the care of a keeper

• Genesis 39:21

USED FOR CONFINING

• Luke 23:19

Confinement in, often awarded as a punishment

• Ezra 7:26

Confinement in, considered a severe punishment

• Luke 22:33

PLACES USED AS

• Jeremiah 32:2

18

• 1 Kings 22:27

Magistrates had power to commit to

• Matthew 5:25

PERSONS CONFINED IN

• Leviticus 24:12

The king had power to release from

• Genesis 40:21

Magistrates had power to release from

• Acts 16:35
• Acts 16:36

KEEPERS OF

• Acts 12:6

conducted prisoners

• Genesis 39:22
• Genesis 39:23

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

• Psalms 142:7