2 Kings 6:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ 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.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ 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

²⁹ 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)

²⁹ 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

²⁹ 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

²⁹ 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

²⁹ 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.

2 Kings 6:29 Cross References

1 Kings 3:26

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.”

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.

Isaiah 66:13

As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Lamentations 4:10

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

Leviticus 26:27

“But if, despite this, you disobey me and continue hostile to me,

Leviticus 26:29

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

Deuteronomy 28:52

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.

Deuteronomy 28:53

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.

Deuteronomy 28:57

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.