The dogs will eat Jezebel in the field of Jezreel, and there will be none to bury her.” Then he opened the door and fled.
2 Kings 9:35 - Tree of Life Version But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 will eat Jezebel in the field of Jezreel, and there will be none to bury her.” Then he opened the door and fled.
Then he went inside, ate and drank. Then he said, “Attend now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.”
So they came back and told him. He said, “This is the word of Adonai, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying: ‘In the field of Jezreel will the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel,
Is it not calamity for the unjust, and disaster for workers of iniquity?
Even if a man should father a hundred children and live many years, however many the days of his years may be, yet his soul is never satisfied with his prosperity and he does not have a proper burial, then I say that it is better for the stillborn than him.
With a donkey’s burial will he be buried, dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
Therefore thus says Adonai about King Jehoiakim of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on the throne of David. Moreover, his dead body will be tossed out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.
Immediately, an angel of the Lord struck him down—because he did not give God the glory. And he was eaten by worms and died.