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 [king of Babylon] have been cast out of your tomb (denied burial)
Like a rejected branch,
Clothed with the slain who are pierced by the sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit [into which carcasses are thrown],
Like a dead body trampled [underfoot].
2 Kings 9:35
They went to bury her, but they found nothing left of her except the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
Jeremiah 8:1
“At that time,” says the Lord, “they [the Babylonian army] will bring out from their graves the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its princes, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 22:19

He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey—
Dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 39:4
You will fall [dead] on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the nations who are with you. I will give you to every kind of predatory bird and animal of the field as food.
Joel 2:20

“But I will remove the northern army far away from you,
And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,
With its forward guard into the eastern sea (Dead Sea)
And with its rear guard into the western sea (Mediterranean Sea).
And its stench will arise and its foul odor of decay will come up [this is the fate of the northern army in the final day of the Lord],
For He has done great things.”

And the mountains

Isaiah 34:7

Wild oxen will also fall with them
And the young bulls with the strong bulls;
And their land will be soaked with blood,
And their dust made greasy with fat.
Ezekiel 32:5

“And I will scatter your flesh on the mountains
And fill the valleys with your debris [your corpses and their worms].
Revelation 14:20
And the grapes in the wine press were trampled and crushed outside the city, and blood poured from the wine press, reaching up to the horses’ bridles, for a distance of sixteen hundred stadia.
Revelation 16:3
The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a corpse [foul and disgusting]; and every living thing in the sea died.

General references

Deuteronomy 28:26
Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
Ezekiel 32:4

“Then I will leave you (Egypt) on the land;
I will hurl you on the open field.
And I will make all the birds of the sky dwell on you,
And I will satisfy the animals of all the earth with you.
Ezekiel 35:8
I will fill its mountains with its slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, and in your valleys, and in all your ravines.