en_tn/2ki/10/14.md

Take them alive

This means to capture them, but not to kill them. Alternate translation: "Seize them" or "Capture them" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)

So they took them alive

"So they captured them"

forty-two men

"42 men" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers)

He did not leave any of them alive

This can be stated in positive form. Alternate translation: "He killed all of them"