Wahyu 11:9

11:9 For three and a half days those from every ¹  people, tribe, ²  nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb. ³ 

Mazmur 79:2-3

79:2 They have given the corpses of your servants

to the birds of the sky; ⁴ 

the flesh of your loyal followers

to the beasts of the earth.

79:3 They have made their blood flow like water

all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them. ⁵ 

Yeremia 26:23

26:23 and they brought Uriah back from there. ⁶  They took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him executed and had his body thrown into the burial place of the common people. ⁷ 

Yehezkiel 37:11

37:11 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

[11:9]  ¹ tn The word “every” is not in the Greek text, but is implied by the following list.

[11:9]  ² tn The Greek term καί (kai) has not been translated before this and the following items in the list, since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

[11:9]  ³ tn Or “to be buried.”

[79:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “[as] food for the birds of the sky.”

[79:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “they have poured out their blood like water, all around Jerusalem, and there is no one burying.”

[26:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “from Egypt.”

[26:23]  sn A standard part of international treaties at this time was a stipulation of mutual extradition of political prisoners. Jehoiakim was a vassal of Pharaoh Necho (see 2 Kgs 23:34-35) and undoubtedly had such a treaty with him.

[26:23]  ⁷ sn The burial place of the common people was the public burial grounds, distinct from the family tombs, where poor people without any distinction were buried. It was in the Kidron Valley east of Jerusalem (2 Kgs 23:6). The intent of reporting this is to show the ruthlessness of Jehoiakim.