1 Kings 21:24
Good News Translation
Any of your relatives who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and any who die in the open country will be eaten by vultures." (

New Revised Standard Version
Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat; and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the air shall eat.”

Contemporary English Version
Dogs will also eat the bodies of your relatives who die in town, and vultures will eat the bodies of those who die in the country.

New American Bible
Anyone of Ahab’s line who dies in the city, dogs will devour; Anyone who dies in the field, the birds of the sky will devour.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die in the field, the birds of the air shall eat him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die in the field, the birds of the air shall eat him.

that dieth

1 Kings 14:11 Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs shall eat: and them that shall die in the field, the birds of the air shall devour: for the Lord hath spoken it.

1 Kings 16:4 Him that dieth of Baasa, in the city, the dogs shall eat: and him that dieth of his in the country, the fowls of the air shall devour.

Isaiah 14:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.

Jeremiah 15:3 And I will visit them with four kinds, saith the Lord: The sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

Ezekiel 32:4,5 And I will throw thee out on the land, I will cast thee away into the open field and I will cause all the fowls of the air to dwell upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of all the earth with thee. . . .

Ezekiel 39:18-20 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and of lambs, and of he goats, and bullocks, and of all that are well fed and fat. . . .

Revelation 19:18 That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and of great.

Context
Elijah Denounces Ahab and Jezebel
23And of Jezabel also, the Lord spoke, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel. 24If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die in the field, the birds of the air shall eat him.
Cross References
1 Kings 14:11
Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs shall eat: and them that shall die in the field, the birds of the air shall devour: for the Lord hath spoken it.

1 Kings 16:4
Him that dieth of Baasa, in the city, the dogs shall eat: and him that dieth of his in the country, the fowls of the air shall devour.

2 Kings 9:25
And Jehu said to Badacer, his captain: Take him, and cast him into the field of Naboth, the Jezrahelite: for I remember, when I and thou, sitting in a chariot, followed Achab, this man's father, that the Lord laid this burden upon him, saying:

Jeremiah 15:3
And I will visit them with four kinds, saith the Lord: The sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

Jeremiah 22:19
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.

1 Kings 21:23
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