10 Bible Verses about Captives

Therefore tell the children of Israel, 'I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:

He brought out the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and 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. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

The Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes. And they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.

But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah. Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect. The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.

Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites." Agag came to him with faltering steps. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past." Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women." Samuel cut Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,