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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.
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A Literal Scene of Horror
Commentators explain that this verse describes a literal, gruesome historical reality. During the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, and later during the Maccabean persecution, enemies would slaughter God's people and leave their bodies unburied. In that culture, this was a profound act of desecration and humiliation, denying the dead a final rest and leaving them for scavengers.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The dead bodies of your servants ... - They have slain them and left them unburied. See (2 Chronicles 36:17). This is a descript…
19th Century
Anglican
In addition to references in Margin, see Deuteronomy 28:26.
Saints. —Hebrew, chasîdîm. (See Note,[Reference Psalms …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven For such there were, both at the…
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