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captivity
1. In all of my time in captivity I don’t think I ever managed to sleep, not truly and deeply
2. Given the nature of my captivity and the simple fact of guns and knives and men with tattooed arms, I also realised that my anger had to be controlled
3. Around the third night of my captivity in the apartment, late into the small hours, I heard a faint tapping coming from the pipe that connected the radiator in my room to the circuit of pipes that ran through the apartment
4. I discovered new horizons, and daily I journeyed across the plains of my meagre captivity in search of the treasure caves of Ali-Baba and his forty thieves
5. I held imaginary conversations with them, planning a safe route through the hurts and psychological infirmity of captivity
6. We each discovered the complexity of games and fantasies, inventing new ways to fill the long hours of immobile captivity
7. Menachem had met them once in the early days of his captivity and from that meeting he described both of them to me
8. Time is an elastic concept in captivity
9. Then he too broke the chains of captivity, and locked Menachem into his own arms so that they could start the dance all over again
10. thought of how the guard had mocked him in captivity
11. Scripture says that king Josiah, the last king before the captivity, turned to the Lord with all his heart, even more than David
12. imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ; and having readiness to avenge all
13. Josiah, the last king to rule before Israel was led into Babylonian captivity, was said to be a man more after God’s heart than even
14. captivity, but they also felt the Master’s joy about the victories
15. They were still in captivity at that time
16. Wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men
17. had been released from captivity on board the Shenandoah, he was in a position to show his daring and character
18. For if he was to join them in their celebration, I tell you the truth, it would be death he celebrates and great captivity he honors
19. Lies and deceptions, which only serve to lead you further down the road of your captivity
20. Behold! In that day I shall burst their bonds asunder and free them from the chains of their captivity!
21. And such as are for the captivity, to the captivity”
22. However in both instances they hold you in captivity against your will
23. ) A year of captivity as a POW takes several years off your life, and McCain was a captive for over five years
24. Hours after the captivity Dan 5:5; Jhn 11:9
25. Some of the Bible’s critics suggest that the story of Noah had been borrowed during the Israelite seventy-year Assyrian captivity around 586 BC
26. Even if they had been forced, during their captivity, to nominally accept and even ritually incorporate their captor’s belief system into their own, once they had been freed by invaders, who had conquered their overlords, the natural reaction, as witnesses to their tyrant’s humbling, would be to have thrown off all signs of that yoke
27. Many of the people of the Northern Kingdom were taken into captivity
28. On the fifth day of the month, which was in the fifth year of King Jehoachin’s captivity, the word of the Lord came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Bizi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was upon him there
29. Escaping to Canaan in the company of Abraham, He then virtually disappeared as Abraham’s heirs went into the snare of Egyptian hospitality that slowly sank into virtual or actual captivity
30. “First, that you return the Dauntless leader you currently hold in captivity unharmed
31. land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon
32. 27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven
33. of God; And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity
34. Seraiah, and Seraiah begot Jehozadak, 15 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the Lord carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the
35. in the land where they are carried captive, and turn and pray to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have
36. done amiss, and have dealt wickedly; 38 If they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity,
37. pursued, further evidence this was not a captivity
38. 9 For note, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for
39. 6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom
40. 8 Nevertheless it satisfies them not, that we are in bitter captivity, but they have struck hands with their idols,
41. 10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends; also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he
42. 7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When the Lord brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice,
43. question of intellectual captivity and how it might be straining Jason’s relations with some of his teachers
44. 18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yes, for the rebellious also, that the
45. 61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand
46. 4 Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south
47. from the hands of the destroying lion and of the ravening wolf, and when you have rescued my captivity from the hands of the wild
48. gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge, and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst
49. engraves an habitation for himself in the rock? 17 See, the Lord will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover
50. 2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity