'Alive' in the Bible
“The Lord kills and makes alive;He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
He captured Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
If I am still alive, will you not show me the lovingkindness of the Lord, that I may not die?
David attacked the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive, and he took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish.
David did not leave a man or a woman alive to bring to Gath, saying, “Otherwise they will tell about us, saying, ‘So has David done and so has been his practice all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”