Matthew 24:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles come together.

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  • Luke 17:37 : 37 And they, answering him, said, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles come together.
  • Deut 28:49 : 49 The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;
  • Job 39:27-30 : 27 Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn; 28 When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries. 29 Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south? 30 Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
  • Jer 16:16 : 16 See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
  • Amos 9:1-4 : 1 I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe. 2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down: 3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite: 4 And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.

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    37 And they, answering him, said, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles come together.

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    26 If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.

    27 Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

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    29 But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:

    30 And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven: and then all the nations of the earth will have sorrow, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

    31 And he will send out his angels with a great sound of a horn, and they will get his saints together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

  • 33 And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.

  • 26 Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.

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    24 But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light,

    25 And the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers which are in the heavens will be moved.

    26 And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

    27 And then he will send out the angels, and will get together his saints from the four winds, from the farthest part of the earth to the farthest part of heaven.

  • 15 The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.

  • 17 And I saw an angel taking his place in the sun; and he was crying with a loud voice, saying to all the birds in flight in the heavens, Come together to the great feast of God;

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    23 And if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after them.

    24 For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.

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    14 And this good news of the kingdom will be given through all the world for a witness to all nations; and then the end will come.

    15 When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet (let this be clear to the reader),

    16 Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains:

    17 Let not him who is on the house-top go down to take anything out of his house:

    18 And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.

  • 6 They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of the earth in the winter.

  • 35 For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth.

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    27 And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory.

    28 But when these things come about, let your heads be lifted up, because your salvation is near.

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    33 Even so, when you see all these things, you may be certain that he is near, even at the doors.

    34 Truly I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete.

  • 44 Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.

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    39 And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

    40 Then two men will be in the field; one is taken, and one let go;

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    12 But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;

    13 The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;

  • 2 They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

  • 30 So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.

  • 13 For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.

  • 37 And as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man.

  • 17 Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.

  • 14 And the kite and the falcon, and birds of that sort;

  • 41 The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,

  • 29 Even so, when you see these things taking place, you may be certain that he is near, even at the doors.

  • 4 And I will let you be stretched on the land; I will send you out violently into the open field; I will let all the birds of heaven come to rest on you and will make the beasts of all the earth full of you.

  • 7 For nation will be moved against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and men will be without food, and the earth will be shaking in different places;

  • 7 No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.

  • 20 But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near.

  • 14 But when you see the unclean thing which makes destruction, in the place where it has no right to be (let this be clear to the reader), then let those who are in Judaea go quickly to the mountains:

  • 13 See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.