Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.

Take them alive

Bible References

Take them alive

2 Kings 10:6
Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, “If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.
1 Kings 20:18
Then he said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

Neither left

2 Kings 8:18
He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab became his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
2 Kings 11:1
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
2 Chronicles 22:8
It came about when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers ministering to Ahaziah, and slew them.