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1 Kings 14:11
Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.’ For the LORD has spoken.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet delivers this judgment to Jeroboam’s wife as she departs after inquiring about her sick son.
The words — יֹאכְל֣וּ (yo.khe.Lu) means “they will devour,” and בָּ/עִיר֙ (ba./'Ir) means “in the city.”
The thread — This specific curse of unburied corpses appears in 1 Kings 16:4 against Baasha’s house, 1 Kings 21:23 against Jezebel, and Jeremiah 15:3 as a standard divine judgment.
Why it lands — The text states that anyone in Jeroboam’s line will suffer a dishonoring death regardless of location, and the closing declaration confirms the LORD’s authority over that outcome. It requires the reader to recognize that prophetic pronouncements carry irreversible divine weight.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the Lord hath spoken it.
Cross-references
- 1 Kings 16:4 Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”
- 1 Kings 21:23 And the LORD also speaks concerning Jezebel: ‘The dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’
- Jeremiah 15:3 I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
- Revelation 19:17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,
- 1 Kings 21:19 Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”
- Isaiah 66:24 “As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”
- Ezekiel 39:17 And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.