Joshua 8:23 They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 9:15 and Joshua maketh with them peace, and maketh with them a covenant, to keep them alive; and swear to them do the princes of the company. (YLT)
Joshua 9:20 this we do to them, and have kept them alive, and wrath is not upon us, because of the oath which we have sworn to them.' (YLT)
Joshua 14:10 "Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Judges 8:19 He said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Judges 21:14 Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren't enough for them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 2:6 "Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
1 Samuel 14:36 Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them." They said, "Do whatever seems good to you." Then the priest said, "Let us draw near here to God." (See NIV)
1 Samuel 15:8 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:14 and not only while I am alive dost thou do with me the kindness of Jehovah, and I die not, (YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 25:22 God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall. " (See NIV)
1 Samuel 25:34 For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall. " (See NIV)
1 Samuel 27:9 David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the cattle, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 27:11 David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, "Lest they should tell of us, saying,'So did David, and so has been his manner all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 1:9 He said to me,'Stand, please, beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.' (See NIV)
2 Samuel 8:2 He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
2 Samuel 12:3 And the poor one hath nothing, Except one little ewe-lamb, Which he hath bought, and keepeth alive, And it groweth up with him, And with his sons together; Of his morsel it eateth, And from his cup it drinketh, And in his bosom it lieth, And it is to him as a daughter; (YLT)
2 Samuel 12:18 It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
2 Samuel 12:21 Then said his servants to him, "What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 12:22 He said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said,'Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 17:12 So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one. (See NIV)
2 Samuel 18:14 Then Joab said, "I'n not going to wait like this with you." He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 19:6 to love thine enemies, and to hate those loving thee, for thou hast declared to-day that thou hast no princes and servants, for I have known to-day that if Absalom 'were' alive, and all of us to-day dead, that then it were right in thine eyes. (YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 20:3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and provided them with sustenance, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, in widowhood, with their husband alive. (JPS)
1 Kings 3:23 Then the king said, "The one says,'This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;' and the other says,'No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.'" (See RSV NIV)
1 Kings 3:26 Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it!" But the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide it." (See RSV NIV)
1 Kings 12:6 And king Rehoboam consulteth with the elders who have been standing in the presence of Solomon his father, in his being alive, saying, 'How are ye counselling to answer this people?' (YLT NAS RSV)
1 Kings 15:29 It happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite; (See NAS)
1 Kings 17:23 Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, "Behold, your son lives." The First Book of Chronicles (See NAS NIV)
1 Kings 18:5 Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 20:18 He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, taken them alive." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 20:31 And his servants say unto him, 'Lo, we pray thee, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel -- that they are kind kings; let us put, we pray thee, sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and we go out unto the king of Israel; it may be he doth keep thee alive.' (YLT)
1 Kings 20:32 So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, "Your servant Ben Hadad says,'Please let me live.'" He said, "Is he still alive? He is my brother." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
1 Kings 21:15 It happened, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, "Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 5:7 It happened, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But consider, please, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
2 Kings 7:4 If we say,'We will enter into the city,' then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
2 Kings 7:12 The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, "I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying,'When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 10:14 He said, "Take them alive!" They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men. He didn't leave any of them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 10:6 And king Rehoboam consulteth with the aged men who have been standing before Solomon his father in his being alive, saying, 'How are ye counselling to answer this people?' (YLT NAS RSV)
2 Chronicles 14:13 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar; and there fell of the Ethiopians so that none remained alive; for they were shattered before the LORD, and before His host; and they carried away very much booty. (JPS DBY RSV)
2 Chronicles 25:12 other ten thousand did the children of Judah carry away alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Nehemiah 5:2 For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live. (See RSV NIV)
Nehemiah 9:6 Thou 'art' He, O Jehovah, Thyself -- Thou hast made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that 'are' on it, the seas and all that 'are' in them, and Thou art keeping all of them alive, and the host of the heavens to Thee are bowing themselves. (YLT)
Job 36:6 He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted. (DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 22:29 All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can't keep his soul alive. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 30:3 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS)
Psalms 33:19 to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 41:2 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Psalms 55:15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 124:3 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us; (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 1:12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 4:2 Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 7:21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep; (WEB ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 38:2 Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live. (See NAS)
Jeremiah 49:11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Lamentations 1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject. (See NIV)
Lamentations 1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls. (See NIV)
Lamentations 3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me. (See RSV)
Ezekiel 6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries. (See RSV)
Ezekiel 7:13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Ezekiel 13:18 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Ezekiel 13:19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 13:22 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive: (WEB JPS ASV YLT)
Ezekiel 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Ezekiel 37:6 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. (See NAS)
Zechariah 13:8 It shall happen that in all the land," says Yahweh, "two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it. (See RSV)