Psalms 68:18
18 aYou ascended on high,bleading a host of captives in your train
and creceiving gifts among men,
even among dthe rebellious, ethat the Lord God may dwell there.
Isaiah 14:2
2And fthe peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord’s land gas male and female slaves. ▼▼Or servants
iThey will take captive those who were their captors, jand rule over those who oppressed them. Isaiah 33:1
O Lord, Be Gracious to Us
1 kAh, you destroyer,who yourself have not been destroyed,
you traitor,
whom none has betrayed!
When you have ceased to destroy,
you will be destroyed;
and when you have finished betraying,
they will betray you.
Isaiah 49:24-26
24 Can the prey be taken from the mighty,or the captives of a tyrant ▼
▼Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac, Vulgate (see also verse 25); Masoretic Text of a righteous man
be rescued?25For thus says the Lord:
m“Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken,
and the prey of the tyrant be rescued,
for I will contend with those who contend with you,
and I will save your children.
26 nI will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,
and they shall be drunk owith their own blood as with wine.
Then all flesh shall know
that pI am the Lord your Savior,
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Ephesians 4:8
8Therefore it says,q“When he ascended on high rhe led a host of captives,
and he gave gifts to men.” ▼
▼The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women
2 Timothy 2:26
26and they may come to their senses and escape from tthe snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
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