Verse 8

And there came a messenger, and told him, saying: They haue brought the heades of the kinges sonnes. And he said: Let them lay them on two heapes in the entring in of the gate, vntill the morning.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 21:23 : 23 His body shall not remayne all nyght vpon the tree, but thou shalt bury hym the same day, for the curse of God is on hym that is hanged: Defile not thou thy lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee to inherite.
  • 2 Sam 11:18-21 : 18 Then Ioab sent, and tolde Dauid all the thinges concerning the warre: 19 And charged the messenger, saying: When thou hast made an ende of telling the matters of the warre vnto the king: 20 If the kinges anger aryse, and he say vnto thee, wherfore approched ye so nye vnto the citie when ye did fight? wyst ye not that they would hurle and shoote from the wall? 21 Who smote Abimelech sonne of Ierubesheth? Did not a woman cast a peece of a mylstone vpon him from of the wall, and he dyed in Thebes? why went ye nye the wall? Then say thou: Thy seruaunt Urias the Hethite is dead also.
  • 1 Kgs 21:14 : 14 And then they sent to Iezabel, saying: Naboth is stoned to death.
  • Mark 6:28 : 28 And brought his head in a charger, & gaue it to the damsell, and the damsell gaue it to her mother.