10 Bible Verses about Captives

Therefore say to the sons of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rescue 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 in it, and put them to the saw, and to sharp tools of iron, and to axes of iron. And he made them go over into the brick-kiln. And so he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

And the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass. And he ground in the prison house.

And Adoni-bezek fled. And they ran after him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

They raped the women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. Rulers were hanged by the hand; the faces of elders were not honored. They took the young men to grind, and the youths stumbled at the wood.

And Samuel said, Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him daintily. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. And Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.

and that they awake out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him, so as to do the will of that one.

For of these are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women loaded with sins, led away with different kinds of lusts,

"The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,