Bible Cross References
And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
1 Samuel 17:44-46
44
"Come on," he challenged David, "and I will give your body to the birds and animals to eat."
45
David answered, "You are coming against me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the Israelite armies, which you have defied.
46
This very day the LORD will put you in my power; I will defeat you and cut off your head. And I will give the bodies of the Philistine soldiers to the birds and animals to eat. Then the whole world will know that Israel has a God,
Psalm 79:1-3
1
O God, the heathen have invaded your land. They have desecrated your holy Temple and left Jerusalem in ruins.
2
They left the bodies of your people for the vultures, the bodies of your servants for wild animals to eat.
3
They shed your people's blood like water; blood flowed like water all through Jerusalem, and no one was left to bury the dead.
Isaiah 34:3
Their corpses will not be buried, but will lie there rotting and stinking; and the mountains will be red with blood.
Jeremiah 7:33
The corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals, and there will be no one to scare them off.
Jeremiah 8:1
"At that time the bones of the kings and of the officials of Judah, as well as the bones of the priests, of the prophets, and of the other people who lived in Jerusalem, will be taken out of their graves.
Jeremiah 16:4
They will die of terrible diseases, and no one will mourn for them or bury them. Their bodies will lie like piles of manure on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation, and their bodies will be food for the birds and the wild animals.
Jeremiah 19:7
In this place I will frustrate all the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will let their enemies triumph over them and kill them in battle. I will give their corpses to the birds and the wild animals as food.
Jeremiah 34:20
I will hand them over to their enemies, who want to kill them, and their corpses will be eaten by birds and wild animals.
Ezekiel 39:17-20
17
The Sovereign LORD said to me, "Mortal man, call all the birds and animals to come from all around to eat the sacrifice I am preparing for them. It will be a huge feast on the mountains of Israel, where they can eat meat and drink blood.
18
They are to eat the bodies of soldiers and drink the blood of the rulers of the earth, all of whom will be killed like rams or lambs or goats or fat bulls.
19
When I kill these people like sacrifices, the birds and animals are to eat all the fat they can hold and to drink blood until they are drunk.
20
At my table they will eat all they can hold of horses and their riders and of soldiers and fighting men. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken."