Quotes about Captives
Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives you took from your kinsmen, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon you.”
- 2 Chronicles 28:11
“You must not bring the captives here,” they said, “for you are proposing to bring guilt upon us from the LORD and to add to our sins and our guilt. For our guilt is great, and fierce anger is upon Israel.”
- 2 Chronicles 28:13
So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the leaders and all the assembly.
- 2 Chronicles 28:14
The Edomites had again come and attacked Judah and carried away captives.
- 2 Chronicles 28:17
The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
- Job 3:18
You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
- Psalm 68:18
The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
- Isaiah 14:2
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
- Isaiah 14:17
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.
- Isaiah 20:4
Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
- Isaiah 49:24
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- Isaiah 61:1
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 40:1