Revelation 19:18

That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

Cross-reference

In Revelation 19:21, the birds are gorged with the flesh of the slain, fulfilling the invitation given in verse 18.

Revelation 6:15 lists the same social categories (kings, mighty, slave, free) who hide from wrath, now becoming the feast.

Jeremiah 19:7 likewise gives carcasses to birds and beasts as judgment, matching Revelation's scene.

Matthew 24:28 records Jesus' proverb: where the carcass is, vultures gather, linking to birds feeding on the slain.

Ezekiel 39:18-20 describes a sacrificial feast where birds eat the mighty, directly paralleling Revelation's great supper.

Ezekiel 29:5 uses identical language: God leaves Pharaoh's body as food for birds and beasts.

Jeremiah 34:20 again declares dead bodies as food for birds and beasts, echoing the same motif.

Deuteronomy 28:26 pronounces a curse of carcasses becoming food for birds, directly paralleling the fate of the defeated in Revelation 19:18.

Jeremiah 16:4 repeats the image: the dead are eaten by birds and beasts, emphasizing total abandonment.

Jeremiah 7:33 describes the same judgment: corpses left unburied as food for birds and beasts.

Jeremiah 12:9 calls birds and beasts to devour God's heritage, mirroring the gathering of birds for the great slaughter here.

Jeremiah 15:3 lists fowls and beasts to devour the dead, directly parallel to the invitation for birds to eat flesh in this verse.

Isaiah 56:9 Allusion

Isaiah 56:9 calls beasts to come devour, closely matching the summons to birds in this verse to eat the flesh of the slain.

Isaiah 34:6 Allusion

Isaiah 34:6 depicts God's slaughter as a sacrificial feast with blood and fat, directly paralleling the great supper where birds eat flesh.

Isaiah 18:6 Allusion

Isaiah 18:6 explicitly describes birds of prey summering on corpses — a direct parallel to the great supper in Rev 19:18.

Ezekiel 31:13 shows birds perching on the fallen Assyrian tree — same image of birds consuming the defeated, reinforcing the feast motif here.

Ezekiel 32:4 has birds settling on Pharaoh and beasts eating him — a direct parallel to the call for birds to feast on the slain in this verse.

Ezekiel 39:17 explicitly calls birds to a sacrificial feast on the mountains — the very language echoed in this invitation to God's great supper.

Ezekiel 39:20 continues the feast: eating flesh of the mighty and drinking blood — reinforcing the same banquet-of-judgment imagery.

1 Kings 21:24 similarly declares that birds will eat Ahab's descendants — the same judgment imagery echoed in Rev 19:18.

1 Kings 14:11 pronounces that birds and dogs will eat Jeroboam's dead — directly parallel to the bird feast in Rev 19:18.

Psalm 110:6 Parallel

Psalm 110:5 focuses on the day of God's wrath when kings are crushed, which corresponds to the judgment scene of birds feasting on kings.

Zephaniah 1:7 proclaims the day of the Lord as a prepared sacrifice with consecrated guests — a thematic parallel to this great supper of judgment.

1 Samuel 17:44 has Goliath threaten to feed David's flesh to birds, but here the proud enemy becomes the bird's meal instead.