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David, the shepherd who was sent to the wilderness with a herd of sheep to look after, didn’t know the exact reason. He was by himself without even one brother to aid him.

Proactively, David spent time with the Lord in anticipation of total deliverance and freedom one day. In that wilderness of confinement, he wrote many Psalms, became an expert in music, which brought him to King Saul to soothe him when he was oppressed by an evil spirit. Basically, this down payment gave him an upper hand over the demonic spirits. It made him a poet, a worshipper, a valiant soldier, a wealthy man, a king, a monarch.

What these people made of themselves in their secluded time when their privileges were denied made their time rest in God with a supernatural Down Payment of their trust and faith. They continued to declare who their God is even in such a hopeless situation, which made them emerge as super-heroes of the Scripture, standing tall in the pages of the Bible. An ancestor of Jesus, our savior, we know David did come to that point eventually of predominance and exaltation in the whole Bible.

65 chapters are written about David. Surprisingly, David’s name is mentioned 1,141 times, whereas Jesus’ name is mentioned 925 times compared to David’s, and Jesus came from the root of David.

Ezra was thirty years into the Babylonian Exile in confinement and a man of great faith, and one moved by the Spirit of the Lord. He petitioned King Xerxes for permission to return with more Jews and recounted the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of Solomon’s Temple. He was a scribe and priest sent with religious and political powers by the Persian King Artaxerxes to lead a group of Jewish exiles from a pagan country under a non-believing king.

Nehemiah was born to Jewish parents in Persia during their exile from Jerusalem. He started his prime life in confinement. He was a Jewish leader who supervised the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the mid-5th century BC. After his release from captivity by the Persian king Artaxerxes I, he also instituted extensive moral and liturgical reforms, rededicating the Jews to Yahweh.

Daniel, a youth, was taken into the household of Nebuchadnezzar, had exhibited his personal faith even in the confined state of his life. Some scholars believe that Daniel had a prayer chamber built on top of his house, with the windows permanently open toward Jerusalem. It was an act of faith on the part of an exiled Jew to pray three times a day toward the land from which he had been taken captive.

Moses grew up in Egypt in the palace of Pharaoh, later in confinement in the desert for 4 decades.

Joseph was taken to Egypt and was a slave, as a prisoner who also began his life from the confined state.