Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

Bible References

General references

Psalm 79:2
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
Isaiah 18:6
They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.
Jeremiah 22:19
He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 7:15
The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within: he who is in the field shall die with the sword: and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.