10 Bible Verses about Captives

Tell the sons of Israel: 'I am Jehovah. I will bring you out from under the oppression of the Egyptians. I will free you from slavery! I will rescue you with my powerful arm and with mighty acts of judgment.'

David made the people of Rabbah tear down the city walls with iron picks and axes. He also put them to work making bricks. He did the same thing with all the other Ammonite cities. David went back to Jerusalem. The people of Israel returned to their homes.

The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with copper chains. They put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.

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

They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah. They put princes to death by hanging. The elders are not honored. The young men crushed the grain, and the boys fell under the wood.

Bring me King Agag of the Amalekites, Samuel said. Agag came to him trembling. Surely, the bitterness of death is past, Agag said. But Samuel said: As your sword made women childless, so your mother will be made childless among women. Samuel cut Agag in pieces in the presence of Jehovah at Gilgal.

They should come to their senses out of the snare of the Devil. He has taken them captive and they do his will.

Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts.

The Spirit of Jehovah is upon me. He anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are bruised.