2 Kings 6:29

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day: Give thy son that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:53

And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in the distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee.

Leviticus 26:29

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

Deuteronomy 28:57

And the filth of the afterbirths, that come forth from between her thighs, and the children that are born the same hour. For they shall eat them secretly for the want of all things, in the siege and distress, wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates.

Isaiah 66:13

As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

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.

1 Kings 3:26

But the woman whose child was alive said to the king (for her bowels were moved upon her child): I beseech thee, my lord, give her the child alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

Leviticus 26:27

But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk against me:

Deuteronomy 28:52

And consume thee in all thy cities: and thy strong and high walls be brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

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.