2 Kings 6:28

Modern English Version

And the king said to her, “What is wrong with you?” And she said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son and let us eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

Cross References

Genesis 21:17

And God heard the boy’s voice. Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

2 Samuel 14:5

The king said to her, “What troubles you?” She responded, “Alas, I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

2 Kings 6:27

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

Psalm 114:5

What ails you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back?

Isaiah 22:1

The oracle of the Valley of Vision. What ails you now, that you all have gone up to the housetops,

Isaiah 49:15

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

Lamentations 4:10

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

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore the fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and the whole remnant of you will I scatter into all the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

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

Luke 23:29

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

Judges 18:23

They called out to the Danites. So they turned and said to Micah, “What is wrong that have you assembled together?”

1 Samuel 1:8

Then said Elkanah her husband to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? And why do you not eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”