Difference between revisions of "Text:EBD:Dungeon"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m (Dungeon (EBD) moved to Text:EBD:Dungeon) |
|
(No difference)
| |
Latest revision as of 15:36, 4 November 2008
Different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Acts 16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern (Jer. 38:6). To be shut up in, a punishment common in Egypt (Gen. 39:20; 40:3; 41:10; 42:19). It is not mentioned, however, in the law of Moses as a mode of punishment. Under the later kings imprisonment was frequently used as a punishment (2 Chron. 16:10; Jer. 20:2; 32:2; 33:1; 37:15), and it was customary after the Exile (Matt. 11:2; Luke 3:20; Acts 5:18, 21; Matt. 18:30).
Return to Easton's Bible Dictionary
