Captivity

How Nave’s arranged it

• Of the Israelites foretoldLeviticus 26:33Deuteronomy 28:36
• Of the ten tribes2 Kings 17:62 Kings 17:232 Kings 17:242 Kings 18:9–12
• Of Judah in Babylon, prophecy ofIsaiah 39:6Jeremiah 13:19Jeremiah 20:4Jeremiah 25:2–11Jeremiah 32:28
• Fulfilled2 Kings 24:11–162 Kings 252 Chronicles 36Jeremiah 52:28–30
• Jews return fromEzra 2Ezra 3Ezra 8
• Israelites in, promises toNehemiah 1:9
• As a judgmentEzra 5:12Ezra 9:7Isaiah 5:13Jeremiah 29:17–19Lamentations 1:3–5Ezekiel 39:23Ezekiel 39:24
• FIGURATIVEIsaiah 61:1Romans 7:231 Corinthians 9:272 Corinthians 10:52 Timothy 2:262 Timothy 3:6
• Captivity led captiveJudges 5:12Psalms 68:18Ephesians 4:8

The passages, in Bible order (35)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Leviticus 26:33

   But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 26:331 voice

   “And I will scatter you among the Heathen,....

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2. Deuteronomy 28:36

   The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:361 voice

   “And the Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shall set over thee,....

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3. Judges 5:12

   ‘Awake, awake, O Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, O Barak, and take hold of your captives, O son of Abinoam!’

   ›Commentary on Judges 5:121 voice

   “(Judges 5:12) Rise, rise Deborah; rise, speak the Song. It is noteworthy that in Hebrew it is read 'exspergisce,' that is, 'exspergisce' in the spirit of prophecy. Therefore, by the voices of the aforementioned teachers, Deborah is urged to be 'exspergisce' in the spirit of prophecy and praise, and not to cease from praising God. Hence, it follows: Speak the Song. Rise, Barak, and take your captives, son of Abinoam. In Hebrew, it is said: 'Praedare praedam, tuam fili Abinoem.'

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4. 2 Kings 17:6

   In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 17:62 voices

   “In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria,.....

   “Took Samaria - According to the prophets Hosea, Hos 13:16, and Micah, Mic 1:6. He exercised great cruelties on this miserable city, ripping up the women with child, dashing young children against the stones, etc. etc. Carried Israel away into Assyria - What were the places to which the unfortunate Israelites were carried, or where their successors are now situated, have given rise to innumerable conjectures, dissertations, discourses, etc. Some maintain that they are found on the coast of Guinea; others, in America; the Indian tribes being the descendants of those carried away by the Assyrians.

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5. 2 Kings 17:23

   Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria, where they are to this day.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 17:232 voices

   “[The Lord] takes hold of two principal lions, the Assyrians and the Babylonians. According to the history in the fourth book of Kings, there are two. For Assyria removed the sons of Israel to Assyria "until today," but Babylon removed the sons of Judah "to Babylon." Except he did not say here first and second, but first and last. For the first lion is the antagonistic devil; he is a murderer.

   “Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight,.... Suffered them to be carried captive into the land of Assyria: as he had said by all his servants the prophets; by Hosea, Amos, Micah, and others; see their prophecies, and also 1Ki 13:32, so was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria, unto this day; the time of the writing this book; nor have they returned unto our days, nearly 2,800 years later.

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6. 2 Kings 17:24

   Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 17:241 voice

   “The Hebrews, however, call a guard somer, and thus they also hand on in their tradition that the Samaritans first received this name because the king of the Assyrians sent them to be guards of the land of Israel after the captivity, that is, that other Israel besides Judah, which was taken captive into Assyria because of their many sins.

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7. 2 Kings 18:9–12

   In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 18:9–121 voice

   “And it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah,.... In the beginning of it: which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel: the beginning of his seventh: that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it; see 2Ki 17:5.

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8. 2 Kings 24:11–16

   And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 24:11–162 voices

   “And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city,.... He came in person, following his army: and his servants did besiege it; very closely.

   “There is an excellent and significant illustration in the book of Kings, showing how the sin of fornication is prevented by an attack of pride.

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9. 2 Kings 25:1

   So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 25:12 voices

   “What think you of Nebuchadnezzar? Have you not heard from Scripture that he was bloodthirsty, fierce, with the disposition of a lion? Have you not heard that he disinterred the kings? Have you not heard that he brought the people away into captivity? Have you not heard that he put the king's sons to the sword before Zedekiah's eyes and then blinded him? Have you not heard that he shattered the cherubim?

   “And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign,.... Of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. From hence to the end of 2Ki 25:7, the account exactly agrees with Jer 52:4.

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10. 2 Chronicles 36:1

    Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

    ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 36:11 voice

    “Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah,.... Of whose reign, and of the three following, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah, and the account of them, from hence to the end of 2Ch 36:13, what needs explanation or reconciliation; see Gill on 2Ki 23:31, 2Ki 23:32, 2Ki 23:33, 2Ki 23:34, 2Ki 23:35, 2Ki 23:36, 2Ki 23:37, 2Ki 24:5, 2Ki 24:6, 2Ki 24:8, 2Ki 24:10, 2Ki 24:17, 2Ki 24:18.

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11. Ezra 2:1

    Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,

    ›Commentary on Ezra 2:12 voices

    “And they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, etc. For when those who have strayed from the faith are freed from the power of Satan, along with those who have recently learned the faith, they return to Jerusalem of desired peace and to Judah of devoted …

    “Now these are the children of the province,....

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12. Ezra 3:1

    By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.

    ›Commentary on Ezra 3:12 voices

    “Now the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in their cities, etc. The seventh month, which is called October among us, was entirely more solemn than other months due to legal observances; in which even the dedication of the temple was …

    “And when the seventh month was come,....

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13. Ezra 5:12

    But since our fathers angered the God of heaven, He delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean who destroyed this temple and carried away the people to Babylon.

    ›Commentary on Ezra 5:121 voice

    “But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath,.... By their idolatries; which accounts for it how it was that they who were the servants of the great God of heaven and earth, and this temple built for the honour of his name, were not preserved by him; but they were carried captive, and this house left desolate: it was for their sins for which he (God) gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon; see 2Ch 36:19.

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14. Ezra 8:1

    These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:

    ›Commentary on Ezra 8:11 voice

    “These are therefore the chiefs of the families, etc. Until the end of the genealogy, he carefully enumerates the chiefs who went up with him from Babylon and explains their genealogy. He also endeavors to add the number of those, which reaches one thousand four …

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15. Ezra 9:7

    From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and put to the sword and captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.

    ›Commentary on Ezra 9:71 voice

    “Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day,....

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16. Nehemiah 1:9

    but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’

    ›Commentary on Nehemiah 1:92 voices

    But I say, Has the Lord used iniquity to snatch the nations from the power of his enemies and recall them to faith in him and to his dominion? By no means. For "Israel" was once "the Lord's portion," but they made Israel turn from their God in sin, and because of their sins God said to them, "Behold, you have been separated by your sins and because of your sins you have been scattered under the whole heaven."

    “But if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them,....

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