Lexicon :: Strong's H7628 - šᵊḇî

Now it happened at midnight that the LORD struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the [fn]dungeon, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negev (the South country) heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim [the route traveled by the spies sent out by Moses], he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.

“Woe (judgment is coming) to you, Moab!

You are destroyed, O people of [the god] Chemosh!

Moab has given his sons as fugitives [that is, survivors of battle],

And his daughters into captivity

To Sihon king of the Amorites.

“When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God hands them over to you and you lead them away captive,

“Awake, awake, Deborah;

Awake, awake, sing a song!

Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.

Now these are [fn]the people of the province [of Judah] who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had deported to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own city.

In the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak began [the work], with the rest of their brothers—the priests and Levites and all who came to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to oversee the work of the house of the LORD.

Also the [former] exiles who had come from the captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: 12 bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 lambs, and 12 male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.

These are the sons (descendants, people) of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had deported [to Babylon]; they returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his city,

You have ascended on high, You have led away captive Your captives;

You have received gifts among men,

Even from the rebellious also, that the LORD God may dwell there.

And gave up His strength and power (the ark of the covenant) into captivity,

And His glory into the hand of the enemy (the Philistines).

They stooped over, they have bowed down together;

They could not rescue the burden [of their own idols],

But have themselves gone into captivity.

“Can the spoils of war be taken from the mighty man,

Or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?”

Shake yourself from the dust, arise,

O captive Jerusalem;

Rid yourself of the chains around your neck,

O captive Daughter of Zion.

“Those [destined] for death, to death;

Those for the sword, to the sword;

Those for famine, to famine;

Those for captivity, to captivity.”’

“The wind [of adversity] will carry away all your shepherds (rulers, statesmen),

And your lovers (allies) will go into exile.

Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated and disgraced

Because of all your wickedness.

‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant,’ says the LORD,

‘Nor be dismayed or downcast, O Israel;

For behold, I will save you from a distant land [of exile]

And your descendants from the land of their captivity.

Jacob will return and will be quiet and at ease,

And no one will make him afraid.

‘Therefore all who devour you will be devoured;

And all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity.

And they who plunder you will become plunder,

And all who prey upon you I will give for prey.

“But as for you, do not fear, O My servant Jacob,

Nor be dismayed, O Israel!

For behold, I will save you from [your captivity in] a distant land,

And your descendants from the land of their exile;

And Jacob will return and be quiet and secure,

And no one will make him afraid.

“Woe (judgment is coming) to you, O Moab!

The people of [the pagan god called] Chemosh have perished;

For your sons have been taken away captive

And your daughters into captivity.

Her adversaries have become her masters,

Her enemies prosper;

For the LORD has caused her grief

Because of the multitude of her transgressions;

Her young children have gone

Into captivity before the enemy.

“The LORD is righteous and just;

For I have rebelled against His commandment (His word).

Hear now, all you peoples,

And look at my pain;

My virgins and my young men

Have gone into captivity.

“Nevertheless, I will restore them [again] from their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters (outlying cities), the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them [I will restore you from] your own captivity [in the day of the Lord GOD],

“The young men of On (Aven) and of Pi-beseth

Will fall by the sword,

And the women [and children] will go into captivity.

“I sent a plague among you like [those of] Egypt;

I killed your young men with the sword and I captured your horses,

I made the stench of your camp rise up into your nostrils;

Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the LORD.

“And though they go into captivity before their enemies,

From there I shall command the sword to kill them,

And I will set My eyes against them for evil (judgment, punishment) and not for good [that is, not for correction leading to restoration].”

Yet she became an exile;

She went into captivity.

Her young children were dashed to pieces

At the head of every street;

They cast lots for her honorable men,

And all her great men were bound with chains.

“They all come for violence;

Their horde of faces moves [eagerly] forward,

They gather prisoners like sand.