2 Kings 6:28

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then he asked, “What's the matter anyway?” The woman answered, “Another woman and I were so hungry that we agreed to eat our sons. She said if we ate my son one day, we could eat hers the next day.

Cross References

Genesis 21:17

When God heard the boy crying, the angel of God called out to Hagar from heaven and said, “Hagar, why are you worried? Don't be afraid. I have heard your son crying.

2 Samuel 14:5

David asked, “What's the matter?” She replied: My husband is dead, and I'm a widow.

2 Kings 6:27

“Let the LORD help you!” the king said. “Do you think I have grain or wine to give you?”

Psalm 114:5

Ask the sea why it ran away or ask the Jordan why it flowed upstream.

Isaiah 22:1

This is a message about Vision Valley: Why are you celebrating on the flat roofs of your houses?

Isaiah 49:15

The LORD answered, “Could a mother forget a child who nurses at her breast? Could she fail to love an infant who came from her own body? Even if a mother could forget, I will never forget you.

Lamentations 4:10

Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.

Ezekiel 5:10

Parents will be so desperate for food that they will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. Those who survive this horror will be scattered in every direction.

Leviticus 26:29

In fact, you will be so desperate for food that you will eat your own children.

Luke 23:29

Some day people will say, “Women who never had children are really fortunate!”

Judges 18:23

and shouted for them to stop. They turned to face him and asked, “What's wrong? Why did you bring all these men?”

1 Samuel 1:8

So Elkanah asked, “Hannah, why are you crying? Why won't you eat? Why do you feel so bad? Don't I mean more to you than ten sons?”