1 Kings 14:11

11 Anyone who belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and anyone who dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat,^[a] for the Lord has said it!'

1 Kings 14:11 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 14:11

Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat, and
him that dieth in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat
The meaning is, that they should have no burial:

for the Lord hath spoken it;
and therefore shall be fulfilled, for what he hath said he will do, ( Numbers 23:19 ) .

1 Kings 14:11 In-Context

9 You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you. In order to provoke Me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images, but you have flung Me behind your back.

10 Because of all this, I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will eliminate all of Jeroboam's males, both slave and free, in Israel; I will sweep away the house of Jeroboam as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone!

11 Anyone who belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and anyone who dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat, for the Lord has said it!'

12 "As for you, get up and go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the boy will die.

13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him, for this one alone out of Jeroboam's [sons] will come to the grave, because in him [alone] out of the house of Jeroboam something was found pleasing to the Lord God of Israel.

Footnotes

• [a]. 1 Kg 16:4; 21:24