'Swallowed' in the Bible
The thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
and the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. Then I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
“You stretched out Your right hand,The earth swallowed them.
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions.
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up along with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, so that they became a warning.
and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, among all Israel—
“Shall it be told Him that I would speak?Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?
Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, our desire!”Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,And engulfed the company of Abiram.
Then they would have swallowed us alive,When their anger was kindled against us;
“For your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land—Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants,And those who swallowed you will be far away.
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me,He has set me down like an empty vessel;He has swallowed me like a monster,He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;He has washed me away.
“I will punish Bel in Babylon,And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth;And the nations will no longer stream to him.Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!
The Lord has swallowed up; He has not sparedAll the habitations of Jacob.In His wrath He has thrown downThe strongholds of the daughter of Judah;He has brought them down to the ground;He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
The Lord has become like an enemy.He has swallowed up Israel;He has swallowed up all its palaces,He has destroyed its strongholdsAnd multiplied in the daughter of JudahMourning and moaning.
All your enemiesHave opened their mouths wide against you;They hiss and gnash their teeth.They say, “We have swallowed her up!Surely this is the day for which we waited;We have reached it, we have seen it.”
Israel is swallowed up;They are now among the nationsLike a vessel in which no one delights.
But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.
For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.