10 Bible Verses about Captives

Therefore say unto the sons of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will free you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgments.

And he brought forth the people that were therein and put them under saws and under harrows of iron and under axes of iron and made them pass through the brickkiln, and thus did he unto all the cities of the sons of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

But the Philistines took hold of him and put out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of iron that he should grind in the prison house.

But Adonibezek fled, and they pursued after him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

They ravished the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah. Princes were hanged up by their hand; the countenance of the elders was not honoured. They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

Then Samuel said, Bring me Agag, the king of Amalek. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is near. And Samuel said, As thy sword has made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. Then Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

and that they may become converted out of the snare of the devil, in which they are captive to do his will.

For of this sort are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts,

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those that are broken,