2 Kings 6:28

Bible in Basic English 1965

And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.

Cross References

Genesis 21:17

And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

2 Samuel 14:5

And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

2 Kings 6:27

And he said, If the Lord does not give you help, where am I to get help for you? from the grain-floor or the grape-crusher?

Psalm 114:5

What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?

Isaiah 22:1

The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

Isaiah 49:15

Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Ezekiel 5:10

For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.

Leviticus 26:29

Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

Luke 23:29

And they will say to the mountains, Come down on us, and to the hills, Be a cover over us.

Judges 18:23

Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?

1 Samuel 1:8

Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons?