Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'prison' occurs 172 times in the standard works.

77 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'prison' in the standard works and contain 44.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 34 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 14:22-29 (8 in 8 verses)

Gen. 39:20-40:3 (7 in 7 verses)

Alma 20:2-7 (6 in 6 verses)

Acts 16:23-27 (5 in 5 verses)

Hel. 5:21-22 (4 in 2 verses)

Ether 10:6-7 (4 in 2 verses)

Acts 12:4-7 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 20:27-30 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 14:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Acts 5:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 21:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 42:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 37:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 37:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 5:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 9:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 39:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 25:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 5:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 16:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 7:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 9:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 10:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 47 18 65
Gen. 10 2 12
Num. 0 1 1
Judg. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 3 0 3
2 Chr. 2 0 2
Ezra 0 1 1
Neh. 2 0 2
Job 0 1 1
Ps. 1 4 5
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 6 6 12
Jer. 19 0 19
Lam. 0 1 1
Zech. 0 2 2
NT 43 25 68
BM 73 72 145
DC 7 1 8
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 172 116 288

Gen. 39:20
And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

Gen. 39:21
But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Gen. 39:22
And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.

Gen. 39:23
The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper.

Gen. 40:3
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

Gen. 40:5
And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.

Gen. 42:16
Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

Gen. 42:19
If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

Judg. 16:21
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

Judg. 16:25
And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

1 Kgs. 22:27
And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

2 Kgs. 17:4
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

2 Kgs. 25:27
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

2 Kgs. 25:29
And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.

2 Chr. 16:10
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

2 Chr. 18:26
And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.

Neh. 3:25
Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.

Neh. 12:39
And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.

Ps. 142:7
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.

Eccl. 4:14
For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

Isa. 24:22
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

Isa. 42:7
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Isa. 42:22
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

Isa. 53:8
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Isa. 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Jer. 29:26
The Lord hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the Lord, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

Jer. 32:2
For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.

Jer. 32:8
So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the Lord, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.

Jer. 32:12
And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.

Jer. 33:1
Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

Jer. 37:4
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

Jer. 37:15
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

Jer. 37:18
Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

Jer. 37:21
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Jer. 38:6
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

Jer. 38:13
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Jer. 38:28
So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

Jer. 39:14
Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

Jer. 39:15
Now the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

Jer. 52:11
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

Jer. 52:31
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,

Jer. 52:33
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.