So they went to bury her, but they found nothing of her except the skull, the 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.
- 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.
- 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
Cross-references · 6
- 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.”
- Isa 14:18–20All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
- 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:
- Job 31:3Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
- 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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