Matthew 24:28 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁸ “For wherever the dead body is, there the eagles shall be gathered together.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ Wherever there is a fallen body (a corpse), there the vultures (or eagles) will flock together. [Job 39:30.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Common English Bible

²⁸ The vultures gather wherever there’s a dead body.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ Wherever the body shall be, there also will the eagles be gathered together.

Matthew 24:28 Cross References

Jeremiah 16:16

“See, I am sending for many fishermen,” declares יהוה, “and they shall fish them. And after that I shall send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Ezekiel 39:17

“And you, son of man, thus said the Master יהוה, ‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field, “Assemble yourselves and come, gather from all around to My offering which I am slaughtering for you, a great offering on the mountains of Yisra’ĕ

Habakkuk 1:8

“Their horses shall be swifter than leopards, and more fierce than evening wolves. And their horsemen shall charge ahead, and their horsemen come from afar. They fly as the eagle, rushing to eat.

Luke 17:37

And they answering, said to Him, “Where, Master?” And He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the eagles shall be gathered together.”

Deuteronomy 28:49

“יהוה  brings a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you shall not understand,