Matthew 24:28 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Wherever there is a fallen body (a corpse), there the vultures (or eagles) will flock together. [Job 39:30.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Common English Bible

The vultures gather wherever there’s a dead body.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Wherever the body shall be, there also will the eagles be gathered together.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.

Matthew 24:28 Cross References

Jeremiah 16:16

“Behold, I am sending for many fishers, says the Lord, and they shall catch them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Ezekiel 39:17

“As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field, ‘Assemble and come, gather from all sides to the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast upon the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Yea, their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.

Luke 17:37

And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.”

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand,