28For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
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And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? …
I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. …
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-31)The disciples had asked concerning the times, When shall these things be ? Christ gives them no answer to that, after what number of days and years his prediction should be accomplished, for it is not for us to know the times (Acts 1:7); but they had asked, What shall be the sign ? That question he answers fully, for we are concerned to understand the signs of the times , Matt. 16:3. Now the proph…
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