2 Kings 6:28

God's Word

Then the king asked her, “What’s the matter?” She answered, “This woman told me, ‘Give up your son. Let’s eat him today. We’ll eat my son tomorrow.’

Cross References

Genesis 21:17

God heard the boy crying, and the Messenger of God called to Hagar from heaven. “What’s the matter, Hagar?” he asked her. “Don’t be afraid! God has heard the boy crying from the bushes.

2 Samuel 14:5

The king asked her, “What can I do for you?” She answered, “I’m a widow; my husband is dead.

2 Kings 6:27

He answered, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, how can I help you? I can’t give you something from the threshing floor  or the winepress.”

Psalm 114:5

Red Sea, why did you run away? Jordan River, what made you turn back?

Isaiah 22:1

This is the divine revelation about the valley of Vision. What’s the matter with you? Why do all of you go up on the roofs?

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her nursing child? Will she have no compassion on the child from her womb? Although mothers may forget, I will not forget you.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of loving mothers cooked their own children. The children were used for food by my people when they were being destroyed ⌞by a blockade⌟.

Ezekiel 5:10

That is why parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter whoever is left to the wind.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

Luke 23:29

The time is coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the women who couldn’t get pregnant, who couldn’t give birth, and who couldn’t nurse a child.’

Judges 18:23

They shouted at them. But the people of Dan turned around and said to Micah, “What’s your problem? Why did you call your neighbors together to attack us?”

1 Samuel 1:8

Her husband Elkanah would ask her, “Hannah, why are you crying? Why haven’t you eaten? Why are you so downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?”