But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
Parallel translations
- WEB They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
- 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.
- 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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Quick answer
When they went to bury her, only her skull, feet, and hands remained. The dogs had devoured her, just as foretold.
Overview
The gruesome discovery that only fragments of Jezebel remained fulfills precisely Elijah's prophecy. What was left could not be honored with a proper burial, fulfilling the disgrace God had decreed. The exact correspondence between prophecy and event powerfully affirms that not one word of the LORD falls to the ground.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 36:30Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.
- Jer 22:19He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
- Isa 14:18–20All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.
- Eccl 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- Job 31:3Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
- Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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Amid the long decline toward exile, the promise to David's house refuses to die; the flickering lamp kept burning anticipates the coming King who will not fail or be cut off.
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