But the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because compassion for her son burned within her, “Please, my lord, give her the living boy; certainly do not kill him!” The other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.”
2 Kings 6:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, Give your son so we may eat him, but she had hidden her son. American Standard Version (1901) So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son. Common English Bible So we cooked and ate my son. The next day I said to her, ‘Hand over your son so we can eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.” Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, we cooked my son, and we ate him. And I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, so that we may eat him.' But she concealed her son." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day: Give thy son that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son. |
But the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because compassion for her son burned within her, “Please, my lord, give her the living boy; certainly do not kill him!” The other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.”
Can a woman forget her nursing child or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these might forget, yet I will not forget you.
As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.
You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout your land; it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout the land that the Lord your God has given you.
In the desperate straits to which the enemy siege reduces you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your own sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you.
begrudging even the afterbirth that comes out from between her thighs and the children that she bears, because she is eating them in secret for lack of anything else, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in your towns.