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When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
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Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You’ve deceived me, and you’ve carried off my daughters like captives in war.
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Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison,
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the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
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So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there.
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and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.
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each of the two men—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison—had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.
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But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.
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Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
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If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.
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At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.
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Woe to you, Moab! You are destroyed, people of Chemosh! He has given up his sons as fugitives and his daughters as captives to Sihon king of the Amorites.
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yet you Kenites will be destroyed when Ashur takes you captive.”
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and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.
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“Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed must stay outside the camp seven days. On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves and your captives.
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And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad—they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it.
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Marrying a Captive Woman
When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,
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if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.
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I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
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‘Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, break out in song! Arise, Barak! Take captive your captives, son of Abinoam.’
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The people of Judah asked, “Why have you come to fight us?” “We have come to take Samson prisoner,” they answered, “to do to him as he did to us.”
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Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.
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While they were in high spirits, they shouted, “Bring out Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them. When they stood him among the pillars,
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and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way.
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When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
