2 Kings 6:28

English Standard Version 2016

And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:5

And the king said to her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Judges 18:23

And they shouted to the people of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you, that you come with such a company?”

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

Isaiah 22:1

The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

Psalm 114:5

What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

1 Samuel 1:8

And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”

Leviticus 26:29

You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

Genesis 21:17

And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

2 Kings 6:27

And he said, “If the Lord will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?”