'Preserved' in the Bible

But David said to them, "You should not do so, my brothers, with what Yahweh has given to us! He has preserved us and has given the [raiding] band that came against us into our hand.

You delivered me from the strife of my people; you preserved me as the head of the nations. A people I had not known served me.

You have granted me life and loyal love, and your care has preserved my spirit.

O Yahweh, you have brought my life up from Sheol. You preserved me alive from among those going down to [the] pit.

And he says, "It is trivial {for you to be} a servant for me, to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel. I will give you as a light [to the] nations, to be my salvation to the end of the earth."

'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase, the sealed one, and this opened deed, and you must put them in an {earthenware jar} so that they may be kept preserved many days."