1 KINGS 14:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.”
Anyone of Jeroboam's family who dies in the city the dogs shall eat; and anyone who dies in the open country the birds of the air shall eat; for the LORD has spoken it.' — The oracle specifies indignity in death: denial of proper burial, exposure to scavengers. The phrase הַמֵּת לְיָרְבְּעָם בָּעִיר יֹאכְלוּ הַכְּלָבִים (those who die in the city the dogs shall eat) invokes the worst curse in Israelite theology: desecration and dishonor. The phrase כִּי־יְהוָה דִּבֵּר (the LORD has spoken) lends absolute finality.
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