And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto [one] named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
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.
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].
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
[That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; [that] opened not the house of his prisoners?
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
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.
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that [are] in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures [shall be] in all high places.
[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
And [when] king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took [some] of them prisoners.
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein [is] no water.
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare [that] I will render double unto thee;
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