Prisoners of War
14 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Blinded
- 2 Kings 25:7 And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
Consolations For
- Psalm 69:33 For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
- Psalm 79:11 May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
- Psalm 102:19–20 For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth …
- Psalm 146:7 He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
Put to Death
- Joshua 10:16–27 Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah. …
- 1 Samuel 15:33 But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.
- 1 Samuel 27:11 David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” And this was David’s custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.
- 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.
- 2 Kings 25:7 And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
- 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.
- Hosea 13:16 Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
- 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.
- Lamentations 3:34 To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
Thumbs and Toes Cut off
- Judges 1:6–7 As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. …
Related topics
PrisonersPrisoners of War by Divine CommandMakkedahPiramAdoni-ZedekDebir
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.