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Bible Verses About Captive

13 verses · 3 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;

  2. thou--thou art over my house, and at thy mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than thou.'

  3. And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `See, I have put thee over all the land of Egypt.'

  4. And Pharaoh turneth aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and putteth it on the hand of Joseph, and clotheth him with garments of fine linen, and placeth a chain of gold on his neck,

  5. and causeth him to ride in the second chariot which he hath, and they proclaim before him, `Bow the knee!' and--to put him over all the land of Egypt.

  6. And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `I am Pharaoh, and without thee a man doth not lift up his hand and his foot in all the land of Egypt;'

  7. and Pharaoh calleth Joseph's name Zaphnath-Paaneah, and he giveth to him Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, for a wife, and Joseph goeth out over the land of Egypt.

  8. And it cometh to pass, in the coming in of David and his men to Ziklag, on the third day, that the Amalekites have pushed unto the south, and unto Ziklag, and smite Ziklag, and burn it with fire,

  9. and they take captive the women who are in it; from small unto great they have not put any one to death, and they lead away, and go on their way.

  10. And it cometh to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of the removal of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and seventh of the month hath Evil-Merodach king of Babylon lifted up, in the year of his reigning, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of the house of restraint,

  11. and speaketh with him good things and putteth his throne above the throne of the kings who are with him in Babylon,

  12. and hath changed the garments of his restraint, and he hath eaten bread continually before him all days of his life,

  13. and his allowance--a continual allowance--hath been given to him from the king, the matter of a day in its day, all days of his life.