But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,

I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars,<n id="1" /> and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols.<n id="2" /> I will abhor you.<n id="3" />

When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.p>

<p class="poetry">Their slain will be left unburied,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">their corpses will stink;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the hills will soak up their blood.<n id="3" />p>

I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols,<n id="1" /> and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.p>

Your dead bodies<n id="1" /> will fall in this wilderness &#8211; all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

and your children will wander<n id="1" /> in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness,<n id="2" /> until your dead bodies lie finished<n id="3" /> in the wilderness.

When the men of Judah<n id="1" /> arrived at the observation post overlooking the desert and looked at<n id="2" /> the huge army, they saw dead bodies on the ground; there were no survivors!

<p class="poetry">But you have been thrown out of your gravep> <p class="poetry">like a shoot that is thrown away.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You lie among<n id="2" /> the slain,p> <p class="poetry">among those who have been slashed by the sword,p> <p class="poetry">among those headed for<n id="3" /> the stones of the pit,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">as if you were a mangled corpse.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s messenger<n id="1" /> went out and killed 185,000 troops<n id="2" /> in the Assyrian camp. When they<n id="3" /> got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!<n id="4" />

&#8220;They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die,<n id="1" /> and the fire that consumes them will not die out.<n id="2" /> All people will find the sight abhorrent.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The women singing in the temple<n id="1" /> will wail in that day.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> is speaking.p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;There will be many corpses littered everywhere!<n id="2" /> Be quiet!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">The charioteers<n id="1" /> will charge ahead;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">their swords<n id="3" /> will flash<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and their spears<n id="5" /> will glimmer!<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">There will be many people slain;<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">there will be piles of the dead,p> <p class="poetry">and countless casualties<n id="8" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">so many that people<n id="9" /> will stumble over the corpses.p>

This very day the <sc>Lordsc> will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God

<p class="bodytext">That very night the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they<n id="1" /> got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses.<n id="2" />

Jehoshaphat and his men<n id="1" /> went to gather the plunder; they found a huge amount of supplies, clothing<n id="2" /> and valuable items. They carried away everything they could.<n id="3" /> There was so much plunder, it took them three days to haul it off.<n id="4" />p>

The whole valley where dead bodies and sacrificial ashes are thrown<n id="1" /> and all the terraced fields<n id="2" /> out to the Kidron Valley<n id="3" /> on the east as far north<n id="4" /> as the Horse Gate<n id="5" /> will be included within this city that is sacred to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="6" /> The city will never again be torn down or destroyed.&#8221;p>

&#8216;The defenders of the city will go out and fight with the Babylonians.<n id="1" /> But they will only fill those houses and buildings with the dead bodies of the people that I will kill in my anger and my wrath.<n id="2" /> That will happen because I have decided to turn my back on<n id="3" /> this city on account of the wicked things they have done.<n id="4" />

Now the cistern where Ishmael threw all the dead bodies of those he had killed was a large one<n id="1" /> that King Asa had constructed as part of his defenses against King Baasha of Israel.<n id="2" /> Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with dead bodies.<n id="3" />