21 Bible Verses about Eating Corpses

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Genesis 40:19

In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you."

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

1 Kings 14:11

Dogs will eat the members of your family who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country."' Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

1 Kings 16:4

Dogs will eat the members of Baasha's family who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country."

1 Kings 21:24

As for Ahab's family, dogs will eat the ones who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country."

1 Kings 21:23

The Lord says this about Jezebel, 'Dogs will devour Jezebel by the outer wall of Jezreel.'

2 Kings 9:10

Dogs will devour Jezebel on the plot of ground in Jezreel; she will not be buried.'" Then he opened the door and ran away.

2 Kings 9:36

When they went back and told him, he said, "The Lord's word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, 'In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel's flesh.

Jeremiah 7:33

Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. There will not be any survivors to scare them away.

Jeremiah 16:4

They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.

Jeremiah 19:7

In this place I will thwart the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will deliver them over to the power of their enemies who are seeking to kill them. They will die by the sword at the hands of their enemies. I will make their dead bodies food for the birds and wild beasts to eat.

Jeremiah 34:20

I will hand them over to their enemies who want to kill them. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.

Ezekiel 39:17

"As for you, son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Tell every kind of bird and every wild beast: 'Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my slaughter which I am going to make for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel! You will eat flesh and drink blood.

Revelation 19:17-18

Then I saw one angel standing in the sun, and he shouted in a loud voice to all the birds flying high in the sky: "Come, gather around for the great banquet of God, to eat your fill of the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of powerful people, the flesh of horses and those who ride them, and the flesh of all people, both free and slave, and small and great!"

Job 39:30

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is."

Luke 17:37

Then the disciples said to him, "Where, Lord?" He replied to them, "Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather."

Genesis 15:11

When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

1 Samuel 17:44

The Philistine said to David, "Come here to me, so I can give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the field!"

1 Samuel 17:46

This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God

Psalm 79:2

They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.

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