Revelation 11:9

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For three and a half days, people from every tribe, language, and nation will gaze at their bodies and will not allow them to be buried in tombs.

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  • Ps 79:2-3 : 2 They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of Your faithful ones to the wild animals of the earth. 3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.
  • Rev 10:11 : 11 And he told me, 'You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.'
  • Rev 11:2-3 : 2 But exclude the outer court of the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months. 3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.
  • Rev 11:11 : 11 But after three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.
  • Rev 13:7 : 7 It was also given power to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. It was given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.
  • Rev 17:15 : 15 Then he said to me, 'The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.'
  • Rev 19:17-18 : 17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying high overhead: 'Come, gather for the great supper of God,' 18 'that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great.'
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 A man may father a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy life's good things and receives no proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
  • Isa 33:1 : 1 Woe to you, destroyer, who has not been destroyed! Woe to you, betrayer, who has not been betrayed! When you finish destroying, you will be destroyed. When you stop betraying, you will be betrayed.
  • Jer 7:33 : 33 The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the animals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
  • Matt 7:2 : 2 For with the standard you use to judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
  • Rev 5:8 : 8 When he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each of them was holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

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  • Rev 11:5-8
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    5If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and devours their enemies. If anyone tries to harm them, this is how they must be killed.

    6They have authority to shut the sky so no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy. They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with any plague whenever they wish.

    7When they have completed their testimony, the beast that rises from the abyss will wage war with them, conquer them, and kill them.

    8Their bodies will lie in the main street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

  • Rev 11:10-13
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    10The inhabitants of the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, sending gifts to one another, because these two prophets had tormented those who dwell on the earth.

    11But after three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.

    12Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they went up into heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched them.

    13At that very hour, there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

  • Rev 11:2-3
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    2But exclude the outer court of the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months.

    3And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.

  • Rev 9:5-6
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    5They were not allowed to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.

    6In those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will desire to die, but death will flee from them.

  • Rev 11:18
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    18The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, the saints, and those who fear Your name, both small and great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.

  • Rev 17:15-16
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    15Then he said to me, 'The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.'

    16The ten horns you saw, and the beast, will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, devour her flesh, and burn her with fire.

  • Rev 20:4-6
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    4Then I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony about Jesus and for the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

    5The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.

    6Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

  • Isa 66:24
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    24Then they will go out and look at the dead bodies of those who rebelled against Me; their worm will not die, their fire will not be quenched, and they will be abhorrent to all mankind.

  • Ps 79:2-3
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    2They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of Your faithful ones to the wild animals of the earth.

    3They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.

  • Isa 34:3
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    3Their slain will be thrown out, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will be dissolved with their blood.

  • Rev 20:9
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    9They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.

  • Rev 13:3
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    3One of the beast's heads appeared to have been fatally wounded, but its mortal wound was healed. The whole earth marveled and followed the beast.

  • Zech 14:12
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    12This will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

  • Jer 16:4
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    4They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will lie like dung on the ground. They will perish by the sword and famine, and their corpses will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

  • Rev 18:9
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    9The kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality with her and lived in luxury will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her burning.

  • Rev 17:8
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    8The beast you saw was, and is not, and is about to ascend from the abyss and go to destruction. Those who dwell on the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will marvel when they see the beast, because it was, is not, and yet is.

  • Rev 6:9-11
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    9When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.

    10They cried out with a loud voice, 'How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until You judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?'

    11Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to rest a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants and brothers were killed just as they had been.

  • Jer 7:33
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    33The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the animals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

  • Rev 9:18
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    18A third of humanity was killed by these three plagues: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths.

  • Jer 25:33
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    33On that day, those slain by the LORD will be scattered from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried; they will be like dung lying on the ground.

  • Rev 10:11
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    11And he told me, 'You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.'

  • Jer 14:16
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    16And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

  • Rev 14:11
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    11The smoke of their torment will rise forever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark bearing its name."

  • Ezek 39:12
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    12For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

  • Ezek 39:14-15
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    14They will appoint men to continually pass through the land to bury the bodies of the remaining travelers who are still on the surface of the land, in order to cleanse it. At the end of the seven months, they will begin their search.

    15As they pass through the land, if someone sees a human bone, they will set up a marker beside it until the buriers bury it in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.

  • Jer 8:1
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    1At that time, declares the LORD, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.

  • Rev 13:7
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    7It was also given power to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. It was given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.

  • Rev 17:6
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    6I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I was utterly amazed.

  • Rev 18:24
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    24And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.

  • Ps 110:6
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    6He will judge among the nations, filling the lands with corpses; He will crush the heads of many over the wide earth.

  • Isa 26:19
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    19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.

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    2Many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

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    22This is what the Lord says: Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man boast in his strength, nor the rich man boast in his riches.

  • Matt 27:52
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    52The tombs were opened, and many bodies of saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

  • Rev 9:20
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    20The rest of humanity, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.