2 Kings 6:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ But then the king asked her, “What is your complaint?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son; we will eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And the king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman said to me, Give me your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.

Common English Bible

²⁸ But then the king asked her, “What’s troubling you?” She answered, “A woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we can eat him today; we’ll eat my son tomorrow.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ "This woman said to me: 'Give your son, so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.

2 Kings 6:28 Cross References

Genesis 21:17

And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

2 Samuel 14:5

The king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.

2 Kings 6:27

He said, “If the Lord does not help you, where would my help come from? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”

Psalm 114:5

Why is it, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

Isaiah 22:1

The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What has happened that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

Isaiah 49:15

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.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.

Ezekiel 5:10

Surely, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents; I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to every wind.

Leviticus 26:29

You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

Luke 23:29

For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

Judges 18:23

They shouted to the Danites, who turned around and said to Micah, “What is the matter that you come with such a company?”

1 Samuel 1:8

Her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? Why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”