2 Kings 6:29

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

So we boiled my son and ate him. Then the next day, I said to this woman, ‘Give me your son so that we can eat him.’ But she has hidden her son!”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:53

You will suffer very much. The enemy will surround your cities. They will not let you have any food. You will get very hungry. You will be so hungry that you will eat your own sons and daughters—you will eat the bodies of the children the Lord your God gave you.

Leviticus 26:29

You will become so hungry that you will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

Deuteronomy 28:57

She will hide and give birth to a baby. And she will eat the baby and everything that comes out of her body with it. All these bad things will happen when your enemy comes to surround your cities and make you suffer.

Isaiah 66:13

I will comfort you like a mother comforting her child. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 49:15

But the Lord says, “Can a woman forget her baby? Can she forget the child who came from her body? Even if she can forget her children, I cannot forget you.

1 Kings 3:26

The second woman said, “Yes, cut him in two. Then neither of us will have him.” But the first woman, the real mother, loved her son and said to the king, “Please, sir, don’t kill the baby! Give him to her.”

Leviticus 26:27

“If you still refuse to listen to me, and if you still turn against me,

Deuteronomy 28:52

“That nation will surround and attack your cities. You think that the tall, strong walls around your cities will protect you. But those walls will fall down. The enemy will surround all your cities everywhere in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Lamentations 4:10

Then even nice women cooked their own children. The children were food for their mothers. This happened when my people were destroyed.