2 Kings 6:28

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:5

And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She answered: Alas, I am a widow woman; for my husband is dead.

Lamentations 4:10

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

Judges 18:23

And began to shout out after them. They looked back, and said to Michas: What aileth thee? Why dost thou cry?

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the paps that have not given suck.

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 judgments in thee, and I will scatter thy whole remnant into every wind.

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? And if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Isaiah 22:1

THE burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Psalm 114:5

The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.

1 Samuel 1:8

Then Elcana her husband said to her: Anna, why weepest thou? And why dost thou not eat? And why dost thou afflict thy heart? Am not I better to thee than ten children?

Leviticus 26:29

So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.

Genesis 21:17

And God heard the voice of the boy. And an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? Fear not: for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.

2 Kings 6:27

And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee? Out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her: What aileth thee? And she answered: