The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and no one shall bury her.” Then he opened the door and fled.
2 Kings 9:35 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They went to bury her, but they found nothing left of her except the skull, feet, and palms of her hands. American Standard Version (1901) And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. Common English Bible They went to bury her, but they couldn’t find her body. Only her skull was left, along with her hands and feet. Catholic Public Domain Version But when they had gone, so that they might bury her, they found nothing but the skull, and the feet, and the ends of her hands. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when they went to bury her, they found nothing but the skull, and the feet, and the extremities of her hands. |
The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and no one shall bury her.” Then he opened the door and fled.
Then he went in and ate and drank; he said, “See to that cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”
When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;
Does not calamity befall the unrighteous and disaster the workers of iniquity?
A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried: dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah: He shall have no one to sit upon the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.
And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.