Deuteronomy 28:26

26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the eretz; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

Deuteronomy 28:26 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:26

And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and
unto the beasts of the earth
Which was always reckoned a very grievous calamity, have no other burial than in the bowels of beasts and birds; and was the case of many of the Jews in the Antiochian persecution, ( Psalms 79:2 ) ; and in a treatise of theirs ^F8, which relates their many afflictions and sufferings in their present captivity, speaking of a persecution of them in Spain, in the Jewish year 5172, it is reported, how that those that fled to avoid punishment were killed in the fields, where their carcasses lying unburied became a prey to beasts:

and no man shall fray [them] away;
the fowls and the beasts; none of their friends being left to do it, and their enemies would not show so much respect to them, and care of them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Shebat Judahm sive Hist. Jud. a Gentio, sect. 46. p. 312.

Deuteronomy 28:26 In-Context

24 The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

25 The LORD will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the eretz.

26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the eretz; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

27 The LORD will strike you with the boil of Mitzrayim, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, whereof you can not be healed.

28 The LORD will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;