one taken in war. Captives were often treated with great cruelty and indignity (
1 Kings 20:32 ;
Joshua 10:24 ;
Judges 1:7 ;
2 Sam.
4:12 ;
Judges 8:7 ;
2 Sam
12:31 ;
1 Chronicles 20:3 ). When a city was taken by assault, all the men were slain, and the women and children carried away captive and sold as slaves (
Isaiah 20 ;
47:3 ;
2 Chr
28:9-15 ;
Psalms 44:12 ;
Joel 3:3 ), and exposed to the most cruel treatment (
Nahum 3:10 ;
Zechariah 14:2 ;
Esther 3:13 ;
2 Kings
8:12 ;
Isaiah 13:16 Isaiah 13:18 ). Captives were sometimes carried away into foreign countries, as was the case with the Jews (
Jeremiah 20:5 ;
Jeremiah 39:9 Jeremiah 39:10 ;
40:7 ).
These dictionary topics are from
M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition,
published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.