KJV King James Version
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.
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2 Kings 9:35
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
WEB World English Bible
They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
ASV American Standard Version
And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And they go to bury her, and have not found of her except the skull, and the feet, and the palms of the hands.
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 9
32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who [is] on my side? who? And there looked out to him two [or] three eunuchs.
33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and [some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.
34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she [is] a king’s daughter.
35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.
36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This [is] the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall not say, This [is] Jezebel.
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Jeremiah 36:30Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.Acts 12:23And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.Isaiah 14:18-20All the kings of the nations, [even] all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.Job 31:3[Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?Jeremiah 22:19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
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