21 Bible Verses about Eating Corpses
Most Relevant Verses
In three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you. He will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.
Your body will be food to all birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth. And no man shall frighten them away.
Dogs will eat members of your family who die in the city. Vultures will eat any who die in the open country. I, Jehovah, have spoken!
Dogs will eat anyone of the family of Baasha who dies in town. The birds of the air will eat anyone who dies in the open country.
Dogs will eat your relatives dying in the city. Vultures will eat your dead relatives in the country.
Concerning Jezebel, Jehovah says: Dogs will eat her body in the city of Jezreel.
Jezebel will not be buried. Dogs in the territory of Jezreel will eat her body.' After saying this, the young prophet opened the door and fled.
So they came back and told him about it. He said: This is what Jehovah said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: 'In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs.
The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth. No one will frighten them away.
They will die of lethal diseases. They will not be mourned or buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground and die by sword and famine (war and starvation). Their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.
I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth.
I will hand them over to their enemies who want to kill them. Their corpses will be food for birds and wild animals.
As for you, son of man, the Lord Jehovah says: 'Speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: Assemble and come, gather from every side to my sacrifice that I am going to sacrifice for you. It is a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.
Then I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice to all the fowls that fly in midheaven: Come and gather yourselves together to the supper of the great God; that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of military commanders, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.
They asked him: Where, Lord? And he said to them: Where the body is the eagles will also gather.
Come here, the Philistine told David, and I will give your body to the birds.
Today Jehovah will help me defeat you. I will knock you down and cut off your head! I will feed the bodies of the other Philistine soldiers to the birds and wild animals. Then the whole world will know that Israel has a real God.
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to the birds for food. They have given the flesh of your godly ones to the animals.
