1 Kings 22:26
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26 Ahab shouted, “Arrest Micaiah! Take him to Prince Joash and Governor Amon of Samaria.
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1 Kings 22:27
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27 Tell them to put him in prison and to give him nothing but bread and water until I come back safely.”
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2 Chronicles 18:25
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25 Ahab shouted, “Arrest Micaiah! Take him to Prince Joash and Governor Amon of Samaria.
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2 Chronicles 18:26
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26 Tell them to put him in prison and to give him nothing but bread and water until I come back safely.”
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Jeremiah 20:2
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2 and so he hit me.[a] Then he had me arrested and put in chains[b] at the Benjamin Gate in the Lord's temple.[c]
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- 20.2 hit me: Or “beat me up” or “had me beaten up.”
- 20.2 in chains: Or “in the stocks” (a wooden frame with holes for the hands, neck, or feet of a prisoner) or “in a prison cell.”
- 20.2 the Benjamin Gate in the Lord's temple: The Hebrew text has “the upper Benjamin Gate in the temple”; the lower Benjamin Gate may have been the city gate of that name.
Jeremiah 37:15-16
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15-16 They were angry and ordered the soldiers to beat me. Then I was taken to the house that belonged to Jonathan, one of the king's officials. It had been turned into a prison, and I was kept in a basement room.
After I had spent a long time there,
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Jeremiah 37:16
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15-16 They were angry and ordered the soldiers to beat me. Then I was taken to the house that belonged to Jonathan, one of the king's officials. It had been turned into a prison, and I was kept in a basement room.
After I had spent a long time there,
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Jeremiah 38:6
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6 Then they took me back to the courtyard of the palace guards and let me down with ropes into the well that belonged to Malchiah, the king's son. There was no water in the well, but I sank down in the mud.
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