Judges 8:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he said, They were my brothers, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.

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  • Judg 8:18
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    18Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor? And they answered, As you are, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.

  • Judg 8:20-21
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    77%

    20And he said to Jether his firstborn, Rise, and kill them. But the youth did not draw his sword: for he was afraid, because he was still a youth.

    21Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks.

  • Josh 2:13-14
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    76%

    13And that you will save my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

    14And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if you do not reveal this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.

  • Judg 9:17-18
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    17(For my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian,

    18But you have risen up against my father's house today, and have killed his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother)—

  • 2 Sam 1:8-10
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    8And he said to me, Who are you? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.

    9He said to me again, Stand, please, upon me, and kill me: for anguish has come upon me, because my life is still in me.

    10So I stood upon him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    6And your maidservant had two sons, and the two fought together in the field, and there was none to separate them, but one struck the other, and killed him.

    7And, behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they said, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall extinguish my last remaining ember, and shall not leave to my husband either name or remnant on the earth.

  • 2 Sam 2:27
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    27And Joab said, As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely by morning the people had gone up every man from pursuing his brother.

  • 2 Sam 19:12-13
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    12You are my brethren, you are my bones and my flesh; why then are you the last to bring back the king?

    13And say to Amasa, Are you not of my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not captain of the host before me continually in the place of Joab.

  • 1 Sam 14:39
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    39For as the LORD lives, who saves Israel, though it be Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But not one of all the people answered him.

  • 2 Sam 14:11
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    11Then she said, I pray you, let the king remember the LORD your God, that you would not allow the avenger of blood to destroy anymore, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.

  • 2 Sam 4:9
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    9And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

  • 2 Kgs 10:14
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    14And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, forty-two men; he left none of them.

  • Judg 12:2-3
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    2And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you did not deliver me out of their hands.

    3And when I saw that you did not deliver me, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?

  • 1 Sam 24:11-12
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    11Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the edge of your robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the edge of your robe and killed you not, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you; yet you hunt my soul to take it.

    12The LORD judge between me and you, and the LORD avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be upon you.

  • 1 Sam 19:6
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    6And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, As the LORD lives, he shall not be killed.

  • Judg 8:15
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    15And he came to the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, whom you taunted me about, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?

  • 2 Sam 18:13
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    13Otherwise I should have acted falsely against my own life: for nothing is hidden from the king, and you yourself would have set yourself against me.

  • 1 Kgs 3:27
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    27Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and do not kill it: she is the mother thereof.

  • 1 Sam 24:18
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    18And you have shown this day how you have dealt well with me: for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
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    23Then said David, You shall not do so, my brethren, with what the LORD has given us, who has preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

  • Judg 9:56
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    56Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father, in killing his seventy brothers.

  • Jer 20:17
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    17Because he did not slay me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great with me.

  • 1 Sam 20:8
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    8Therefore you shall deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you: nevertheless, if there is in me iniquity, slay me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?

  • Judg 9:3
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    3And his mother's relatives spoke about him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother.

  • Judg 8:10
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    10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the armies of the children of the east: for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew sword.

  • Gen 44:7
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    7And they said to him, Why does my lord say these words? God forbid that your servants should do such a thing as this: