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One taken in war. Captives were often treated with great cruelty and indignity (1 Kgs 20:32; Josh 10:24; Judg 1:7; 2 Sam 4:12; Judg 8:7; 2 Sam 12:31; 1 Chr 20:3). When a city was taken by assault, all the men were slain, and the women and children carried away captive and sold as slaves (Isa 20:1–6; Isa 47:3; 2 Chr 28:9–15; Ps 44:12; Joel 3:3), and exposed to the most cruel treatment (Nah 3:10; Zech 14:2; Esth 3:13; 2 Kgs 8:12; Isa 13:16, Isa 13:18). Captives were sometimes carried away into foreign countries, as was the case with the Jews (Jer 20:5; Jer 39:9, Jer 39:10; Jer 40:7).