2 Kings 6:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 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 lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

2 Samuel 14:5

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered; Of a truth I am a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

2 Kings 6:27

And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?

Psalm 114:5

What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?

Isaiah 22:1

The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children; they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgements in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter unto all the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

Judges 18:23

And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?

1 Samuel 1:8

And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?