2 Kings 6:29

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

So yesterday we cooked my son and ate him. But today when I went to her house to eat her son, she had hidden him.”

Cross References

1 Kings 3:26

“Please don't kill my son,” the baby's mother screamed. “Your Majesty, I love him very much, but give him to her. Just don't kill him.” The other woman shouted, “Go ahead and cut him in half. Then neither of us will have the baby.”

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.

Isaiah 66:13

I will comfort you there like a mother comforting her child.”

Lamentations 4:10

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

Leviticus 26:27

Then if you don't stop rebelling,

Leviticus 26:29

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

Deuteronomy 28:52

All over the land that the LORD your God gave you, the enemy army will surround your towns. You may feel safe inside your town walls, but the enemy will tear them down,

Deuteronomy 28:53

while you wait in horror. Finally, you will get so hungry that you will eat the sons and daughters that the LORD gave you.