Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Bible References

Slain

Isaiah 14:19
But you are thrown out without a grave,
like a worthless branch,
covered by those slain with the sword
and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.
2 Kings 9:35
But when they went out to bury her, they did not find anything but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
Jeremiah 8:1
“At that time”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of her officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the residents of Jerusalem will be brought out of their graves.
Jeremiah 22:19
He will be buried like a donkey,
dragged off and thrown
outside the gates of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 39:4
You, all your troops, and the peoples who are with you will fall on the mountains of Israel. I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and to the wild animals.
Joel 2:20
I will drive the northerner far from you
and banish him to a dry and desolate land,
his front ranks into the Dead Sea,
and his rear guard into the Mediterranean Sea.
His stench will rise;
yes, his rotten smell will rise,
for he has done catastrophic things.

And the mountains

Isaiah 34:7
The wild oxen will be struck down with them,
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with blood,
and their soil will be saturated with fat.
Ezekiel 32:5
I will put your flesh on the mountains
and fill the valleys with your carcass.
Revelation 14:20
Then the press was trampled outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press up to the horses’ bridles for about 180 miles.
Revelation 16:3
The second poured out his bowl into the sea. It turned to blood like a dead man’s, and all life in the sea died.

General references

Deuteronomy 28:26
Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.
Ezekiel 32:4
I will abandon you on the land
and hurl you on the open field.
I will cause all the birds of the sky
to settle on you
and let the beasts of the entire earth
eat their fill of you.
Ezekiel 35:8
I will fill its mountains with the slain; those slain by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

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