Prisoners

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 1 Samuel 27:11 OT

  David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’ ”

• 2 Samuel 12:31 OT

  He brought out the people who were in it, and put them under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people…

• 2 Kings 25:7 OT

  They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

• 1 Chronicles 20:3 OT

  He brought out the people who were in it, and had them cut with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

• Hosea 13:16 OT

  Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

• Amos 1:13 OT

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

• Lamentations 3:34 OT

  To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

• Numbers 31:9 OT

  The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.

• Numbers 31:17 OT

  Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

• Judges 1:6 OT

  But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

• Judges 1:7 OT

  Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

• Psalms 69:33 OT

  For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

• Psalms 79:11 OT

  Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

• Psalms 102:19 OT

  For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;

• Psalms 102:20 OT

  to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

• Psalms 146:7 OT

  who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

• Isaiah 61:1 OT

  The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

• Luke 4:18 NT

  “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are…