Luke 17:37

Webster's Bible (1833)

They answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together."

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  • Matt 24:28 : 28 For wherever the carcass is, there will the vultures{or, eagles} be gathered together.
  • Rev 19:17-18 : 17 I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, "Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,{TR reads "supper of the great God" instead of "great supper of God"} 18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great."
  • Job 39:29-30 : 29 From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off. 30 His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."
  • Dan 9:26-27 : 26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One{"Anointed One" can also be translated "Messiah" (same as "Christ").} shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined. 27 He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out on the desolate.
  • Amos 9:1-4 : 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. 2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. 3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them. 4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.
  • Zech 13:8-9 : 8 It shall happen that in all the land," says Yahweh, Two parts in it will be cut off and die; But the third will be left in it. 9 I will bring the third part into the fire, And will refine them as silver is refined, And will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' And they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
  • Zech 14:2 : 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
  • 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 84%

    27 For as the lightning comes forth from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

    28 For wherever the carcass is, there will the vultures{or, eagles} be gathered together.

  • 78%

    33 Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

    34 I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left.

    35 There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left."

    36 {Some Greek manuscripts add: "Two will be in the field, the one taken, and the other left."}

  • 71%

    40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left;

    41 two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.

    42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.

  • 70%

    23 They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go away, nor follow after them,

    24 for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.

  • 26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

  • 17 I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, "Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,{TR reads "supper of the great God" instead of "great supper of God"}

  • Luke 9:57-58
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    57 As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, "I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord."

    58 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."

  • 33 The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

  • Matt 8:19-20
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    68%

    19 A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."

    20 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."

  • 17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

  • 27 Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

  • 34 and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."

  • 2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, The flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

  • 9 They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare?"

  • 15 There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites be gathered, everyone with her mate.

  • 6 They shall be left together to the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the animals of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer on them, and all the animals of the earth shall winter on them.

  • John 7:34-36
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    66%

    34 You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

    35 The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

    36 What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come?'"

  • 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

  • 3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:

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    30 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

    31 In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.

  • 29 When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.

  • 37 and they found him, and told him, "Everyone is looking for you."

  • 21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

  • 27 Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?"

  • 37 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."

  • 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

  • 28 "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'

  • 24 Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

  • 19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • 40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."

  • 12 "What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

  • 14 and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'

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

  • 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.

  • 7 They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?"

  • 31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.