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He was one of the captives whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had deported from Jerusalem with Jeconiah, king of Judah. (Esther 11, 4)
You have let us be driven for slaughter like sheep, scattered among nations as captives. (Psalms 44, 12)
He ascended the high mountain, leading captives in his train, taking people as tributes, even rebels, to his dwelling. (Psalms 68, 19)
all our brothers living in the land of Tobias have been murdered, their women and children taken captives; about a thousand men have been killed." (1 Maccabees 5, 13)
I grant freedom without ransom to all the captives taken from Judea into any part of my kingdom. I free everyone from the taxes they owe me for their livestock. (1 Maccabees 10, 33)
He brought back many captives, conquered Gazard, Beth-zur and the Citadel and cast out everything pagan that was in it. No one was able to resist him. (1 Maccabees 14, 7)
While the godless thought they had the holy nation in their power, they themselves were prisoners, captives of a long night, shut in under their own roofs, banished from eternal providence. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 2)
You can do nothing but cringe among the captives and exiles or fall down among the slain. Yet for all this Yahweh's anger does not subside, his hand is poised to strike. (Isaiah 10, 4)
Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. But as soon as they are back home, the people of Israel will subdue them and make them servants and maids. Thus the people of Israel will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors. (Isaiah 14, 2)
who made the world a waste, who overthrew its cities and would not give its captives release?" (Isaiah 14, 17)
so will the king of Assyria lead away captives from Egypt and exiles from Ethiopia, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, their buttocks uncovered, to the disgrace of Egypt. (Isaiah 20, 4)
to open eyes that do not see, to free captives from prison, to bring out to light those who sit in darkness. (Isaiah 42, 7)
