Matthew 24:28
Good News Translation
"Wherever there is a dead body, the vultures will gather.

New Revised Standard Version
Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

Contemporary English Version
Where there is a corpse, there will always be vultures.

New American Bible
Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.

Deuteronomy 28:49 The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand,

Job 39:27-30 Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places? . . .

Jeremiah 16:16 Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them: and after this I will send them many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.

Amos 9:1-4 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God, O Dan, liveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall rise no more. . . .

Luke 17:37 Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.

Context
The Return of the Son of Man
27For as lightning cometh out of the east and appeareth even into the west: so shall also the cowling of the Son of man be. 28Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together. 29And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be moved.…
Cross References
Job 39:30
Her young ones shall suck up blood: and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immediately there.

Ezekiel 39:17
And thou, O son of man, saith the Lord God, say to every fowl, and to all the birds, and to all the beasts of the field: Assemble yourselves, make haste, come together from every side to my victim, which I slay for you, a great victim upon the mountains of Israel: to eat flesh, and drink blood.

Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses are lighter than leopards, and swifter than evening wolves; and their horsemen shall be spread abroad: for their horsemen shall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that maketh haste to eat.

Luke 17:37
Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.

Matthew 24:27
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