CAPTIVE

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• Genesis 14:12

  They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

• Genesis 41:39

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

• Genesis 41:40

  You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

• Genesis 41:41

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

• Genesis 41:42

  Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,

• Genesis 41:43

  and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:44

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

• Genesis 41:45

  Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

• Numbers 31:9

  The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.

• Numbers 31:10

  All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.

• Numbers 31:11

  They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.

• Numbers 31:12

  They brought the captives, and the prey, and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

• Numbers 31:13

  Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.

• Numbers 31:14

  Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

• Numbers 31:15

  Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?

• Numbers 31:16

  Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

• Numbers 31:17

  Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

• Numbers 31:18

  But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

• Numbers 31:19

  “Encamp outside of the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

• Numbers 31:20

  As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves.”

• Deuteronomy 20:13

  When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;

• Deuteronomy 20:14

  but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

• Deuteronomy 21:10

  When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

• Joshua 8:29

  He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.

• Joshua 10:15

  Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

• Joshua 10:16

  These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

• Joshua 10:17

  Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

• Joshua 10:18

  Joshua said, “Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them;

• Joshua 10:19

  but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.”

• Joshua 10:20

  When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

• Joshua 10:21

  all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 10:22

  Then Joshua said, “Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me.”

• Joshua 10:23

  They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

• Joshua 10:24

  When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks.

• Joshua 10:25

  Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”

• Joshua 10:26

  Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.

• Joshua 10:27

  At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

• Joshua 10:28

  Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 10:29

  Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.

• Joshua 10:30

  Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 10:31

  Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.

• Joshua 10:32

  Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

• Joshua 10:33

  Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining.

• Joshua 10:34

  Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it fought against it.

• Joshua 10:35

  They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

• Joshua 10:36

  Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it.

• Joshua 10:37

  They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.

• Joshua 10:38

  Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it.

• Joshua 10:39

  He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.

• Joshua 10:40

  So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.

• Joshua 11:11

  They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.

• Judges 1:6

  But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

• Judges 1:7

  Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

• Judges 7:25

  They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press; and pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

• Judges 8:21

  Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks.

• Judges 16:21

  The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

• Judges 21:11

  This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”

• 1 Samuel 15:32

  Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites here to me!” Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

• 1 Samuel 15:33

  Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

• 1 Samuel 30:1

  When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

• 1 Samuel 30:2

  and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.

• 2 Samuel 8:2

  He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

• 2 Samuel 12:31

  He brought out the people who were in it, and put them under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 5:2

  The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.

• 2 Kings 8:12

  Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their little ones in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women.”

• 2 Kings 15:16

  Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah, and all who were in it, and its border areas, from Tirzah. He attacked it because they didn’t open their gates to him, and he ripped up all their women who were with child.

• 2 Kings 25:27

  In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

• 2 Kings 25:28

  and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

• 2 Kings 25:29

  and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;

• 2 Kings 25:30

  and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

• 1 Chronicles 20:3

  He brought out the people who were in it, and had them cut with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 25:11

  Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.

• 2 Chronicles 25:12

  The children of Judah carried away ten thousand alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and threw them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.

• Esther 2:8

  So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

• Psalms 44:12

  You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

• Psalms 106:46

  He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

• Isaiah 20:4

  so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

• Isaiah 51:14

  The captive exile will speedily be freed; and he will not die and go down into the pit, and his bread will not fail.

• Jeremiah 39:6

  Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.

• Jeremiah 39:7

  Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

• Lamentations 5:11

  They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

• Lamentations 5:12

  Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

• Lamentations 5:13

  The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

• Ezekiel 23:25

  I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury; they will take away your nose and your ears; and your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your residue will be devoured by the fire.

• Ezekiel 23:26

  They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

• Joel 3:6

  and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

• Amos 1:13

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

• Zechariah 14:2

  For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.