Captive
37 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
14 sections
- Advanced to Positions in State
- Cruelty to Blinded
- Cruelty to Confined in Pits
- Cruelty to Enslaved
- Cruelty to Maimed
- Cruelty to Putting to Death
- Cruelty to Ravished
- Cruelty to Ripping Women with Child
- Cruelty to Robbed
- Cruelty to Tortured Under Saws and Harrows
- Cruelty to Twenty Thousand, by Amaziah
- Kindness To
- Other Indignities To
- Prisoner of War
Advanced to Positions in State
- Genesis 41:39–45 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you. …
- Esther 2:8 When the king’s command and edict had been proclaimed, many young women gathered at the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the care of Hegai, the custodian of the women.
- Daniel 1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
Cruelty to Blinded
- Judges 16:21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
- Jeremiah 39:7 Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
Cruelty to Confined in Pits
- Isaiah 51:14 The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.
Cruelty to Enslaved
- Deuteronomy 20:14 But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city— all its spoil— you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
- 2 Kings 5:2 At this time the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken a young girl from the land of Israel, and she was serving Naaman’s wife.
- Psalm 44:12 You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
- Joel 3:6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
Cruelty to Maimed
- Judges 1:6–7 As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. …
Cruelty to Putting to Death
- Numbers 31:9–20 The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods. …
- Deuteronomy 20:13 When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
- Deuteronomy 21:10 When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,
- Joshua 8:29 He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which …
- Joshua 10:15–40 Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal. …
- Joshua 11:11 The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Joshua burned down Hazor itself.
- Judges 7:25 They also captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. So they pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other …
- Judges 8:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up and kill us yourself, for as the man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments from the necks of their camels.
- Judges 21:11 This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
- 1 Samuel 15:32–33 Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.” …
- 2 Samuel 8:2 David also defeated the Moabites, made them lie down on the ground, and measured them off with a cord. He measured off with two lengths those to be put to death, and with one length those to be spared. So the Moabites became …
- 2 Kings 8:12 “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and …
- Jeremiah 39:6 There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.
Cruelty to Ravished
- Lamentations 5:11–13 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. …
- Zechariah 14:2 For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
Cruelty to Ripping Women with Child
- 2 Kings 8:12 “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and …
- 2 Kings 15:16 At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.
- Amos 1:13 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.
Cruelty to Robbed
- Ezekiel 23:25–26 And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your remnant will be …
Cruelty to Tortured Under Saws and Harrows
- 2 Samuel 12:31 David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 20:3 David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
Cruelty to Twenty Thousand, by Amaziah
- 2 Chronicles 25:11–12 Amaziah, however, summoned his strength and led his troops to the Valley of Salt, where he struck down 10,000 men of Seir, …
Kindness To
- 2 Kings 25:27–30 On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison. …
- Psalm 106:46 He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.
Other Indignities To
- Isaiah 20:4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks— to Egypt’s shame.
Prisoner of War
- Genesis 14:12 They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.
- 1 Samuel 30:1–2 On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down. …
Related topics
War of ExterminationMassacre of the Cities of the Seven KingsPrisoners of WarMakkedahHebronAdoni-Zedek
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.