Bible Verses About Captives

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon you.

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.

And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.

For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after that Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,

And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.