2 Kings 6:28 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁸ And the sovereign said to her, “What is troubling you?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son and let us eat him today, and tomorrow we eat my son.’

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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.'

2 Kings 6:28 Cross References

Genesis 21:17

And Elohim heard the voice of the boy, and the messenger of Elohim called to Hagar from the heavens, and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for Elohim has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

2 Samuel 14:5

And the sovereign said to her, “What is your trouble?” And she answered, “Truly I am a widow, my husband is dead.

2 Kings 6:27

And he said, “If יהוה  does not help you, where do I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”

Psalm 114:5

Why was it, O sea, that you fled? O Yardĕ

Isaiah 22:1

The message concerning the Valley of Vision. What troubles you now, that you have all gone up to the house-tops,

Isaiah 49:15

“Would a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Though they forget, I never forget you.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of the compassionate women Have boiled their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Ezekiel 5:10

‘Therefore fathers are going to eat their sons in your midst, and sons eat their fathers. And I shall execute judgments among you and scatter all your remnant to all the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

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

Luke 23:29

“For look, days are coming in which they shall say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed!’

Judges 18:23

and called out to the children of Dan. So they turned around and said to Miḵ

1 Samuel 1:8

And her husband Elqanah said to her, “Ḥ