1 Samuel 17:46

New American Bible - revised edition

Today the Lord shall deliver you into my hand; I will strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will feed your dead body and the dead bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field; thus the whole land shall learn that Israel has a God.

Cross References

Genesis 40:19

within three days Pharaoh will single you out and will impale you on a stake, and the birds will be eating your flesh.”

2 Samuel 18:28

Then Ahimaaz called out and greeted the king. With face to the ground he paid homage to the king and said, “Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men who rebelled against my lord the king.”

2 Samuel 21:10

Then Rizpah, Aiah’s daughter, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest until rain came down on them from the heavens, fending off the birds of the heavens from settling on them by day, and the wild animals by night.

1 Kings 8:43

listen in heaven, the place of your enthronement. Do all that the foreigner asks of you, that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, may revere you as do your people Israel, and may know that your name has been invoked upon this house that I have built.

1 Kings 8:60

so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God and there is no other.

2 Kings 19:19

Therefore, Lord, our God, save us from this man’s power, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, Lord, are God.”

2 Kings 5:15

He returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel. Please accept a gift from your servant.”

Psalm 31:8

I will rejoice and be glad in your mercy, once you have seen my misery, [and] gotten to know the distress of my soul.

Psalm 46:10

Who stops wars to the ends of the earth, breaks the bow, splinters the spear, and burns the shields with fire;

Exodus 9:16

But this is why I have let you survive: to show you my power and to make my name resound throughout the earth!

Isaiah 37:20

Therefore, Lord, our God, save us from this man’s power, That all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, Lord, are God.”

Isaiah 52:10

The Lord has bared his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; All the ends of the earth can see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 56:9

All you beasts of the field, come to devour, all you beasts in the forest!

Jeremiah 19:7

In this place I will foil the plan of Judah and Jerusalem; I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hand of those who seek their lives. Their corpses I will give as food to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 34:20

These I will hand over to their enemies, to those who seek their lives: their corpses shall become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.

Daniel 2:47

To Daniel the king said, “Truly your God is the God of gods and Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries; that is why you were able to reveal this mystery.”

Daniel 3:29

For we have sinned and transgressed by departing from you, and we have done every kind of evil.

Matthew 24:28

Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. The Coming of the Son of Man.

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your corpses will become food for all the birds of the air and for the beasts of the field, with no one to frighten them off.

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the Lord, your God, gives them over to you and you defeat them, you shall put them under the ban. Make no covenant with them and do not be gracious to them.

Deuteronomy 7:23

The Lord, your God, will give them over to you and throw them into utter panic until they are destroyed.

Joshua 10:8

The Lord said to Joshua: Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your power. Not one of them will be able to withstand you.

Joshua 4:24

in order that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, and that you may fear the Lord, your God, forever.”

1 Samuel 14:6

Jonathan said to his armor-bearer: “Come, let us go over to that outpost of the uncircumcised. Perhaps the Lord will help us, because it is no more difficult for the Lord to grant victory by means of a few than it is by means of many.”

1 Samuel 17:44

and said to him, “Come here to me, and I will feed your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.”