KJV King James Version
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
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Matthew 24:28
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
WEB World English Bible
For wherever the carcass is, there is where the vultures gather together.
ASV American Standard Version
Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for wherever the carcase may be, there shall the eagles be gathered together.
Surrounding context — Matthew 24
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe [it] not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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Luke 17:37And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body [is], thither will the eagles be gathered together.Job 39:27-30Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?Amos 9:1-4I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.Deuteronomy 28:49The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;Jeremiah 16:16Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
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