They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
Parallel translations
- KJV 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.
- BSB But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
- NKJV So they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
- NASB So they went to bury her, but they found nothing of her except the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
- NLT But when they went out to bury her, they found only her skull, her feet, and her hands.
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- Job 31:3Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
- Eccl 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:
- Isa 14:18–20All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
- Jer 36:30Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
- Jer 22:19He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
- Acts 12:23Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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