30 Bible Verses about Defecation

Most Relevant Verses

Deuteronomy 23:13

You must have a digging tool in your equipment; when you relieve yourself, dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement.

Judges 3:24

Ehud was gone when Eglon’s servants came in. They looked and found the doors of the upstairs room locked and thought he was relieving himself in the cool room.

1 Samuel 24:3

When Saul came to the sheep pens along the road, a cave was there, and he went in to relieve himself. David and his men were staying in the back of the cave,

2 Kings 10:27

and tore down the pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it a latrine—which it is to this day.

Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring distress on mankind,
and they will walk like the blind
because they have sinned against the Lord.
Their blood will be poured out like dust
and their flesh like dung.

Judges 3:22

Even the handle went in after the blade, and Eglon’s fat closed in over it, so that Ehud did not withdraw the sword from his belly. And Eglon’s insides came out.

Matthew 15:17

“Don’t you realize that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is eliminated?

Mark 7:19

For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated.” (As a result, He made all foods clean.)

Leviticus 4:11

But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and shanks, and its entrails and dung—

Leviticus 8:17

He burned up the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung outside the camp, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Leviticus 16:27

The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the most holy place to make atonement, must be brought outside the camp and their hide, flesh, and dung burned up.

Numbers 19:5

The cow must be burned in his sight. Its hide, flesh, and blood, are to be burned along with its dung.

2 Kings 6:25

So there was a great famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey’s head sold for 80 silver shekels, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five silver shekels.

2 Kings 18:27

But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words? Hasn’t he also sent me to the men who sit on the wall, destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

Isaiah 36:12

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

Ezekiel 4:12

You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight.”

Ezekiel 4:15

He replied to me, “Look, I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that.”

Job 20:7

he will vanish forever like his own dung.
Those who know him will ask, “Where is he?”

Psalm 83:10

They were destroyed at En-dor;
they became manure for the ground.

Jeremiah 8:2

They will be exposed to the sun, the moon, and the whole heavenly host, which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be collected and buried but will become like manure on the surface of the soil.

Jeremiah 9:22

Speak as follows:

This is what the Lord says:

Human corpses will fall
like manure on the surface of the field,
like newly cut grain after the reaper
with no one to gather it.

Jeremiah 16:4

They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the face of the earth. They will be finished off by sword and famine. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.

Jeremiah 25:33

Those slain by the Lord on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like manure on the surface of the ground.

1 Kings 14:10

Because of all this, I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam:

I will eliminate all of Jeroboam’s males,
both slave and free, in Israel;
I will sweep away the house of Jeroboam
as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone!

2 Kings 9:37

Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the field in the plot of land at Jezreel so that no one will be able to say: This is Jezebel.’”

Malachi 2:3

“Look, I am going to rebuke your descendants, and I will spread animal waste over your faces, the waste from your festival sacrifices, and you will be taken away with it.

Isaiah 25:10

For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain.

But Moab will be trampled in his place
as straw is trampled in a dung pile.

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