2 Kings 6:28

New American Bible - revised edition

Then the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She replied: “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son that we may eat him today; then tomorrow we will eat my son.’

Cross References

Genesis 21:17

God heard the boy’s voice, and God’s angel called to Hagar from heaven: “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not fear; God has heard the boy’s voice in this plight of his.

2 Samuel 14:5

The king said to her, “What do you want?” She replied: “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.

2 Kings 6:27

He replied, “If the Lord does not save you, where could I find means to save you? On the threshing floor? In the wine press?”

Psalm 114:5

Why was it, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you turned back?

Isaiah 22:1

Oracle on the Valley of Vision: What is the matter with you now, that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

Isaiah 49:15

Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children! They became their food when the daughter of my people was shattered.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore, parents will eat their children in your midst, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishments upon you and scatter all who remain to the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

Luke 23:29

for indeed, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.’

Judges 18:23

They called to the Danites, who turned and said to Micah, “What do you want that you have called this muster?”

1 Samuel 1:8

Elkanah, her husband, would say to her: “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why are you not eating? Why are you so miserable? Am I not better for you than ten sons?” Hannah’s Prayer.