2 Kings 6:29

New American Bible - revised edition

So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Now give up your son that we may eat him.’ But she hid her son.”

Cross References

1 Kings 3:26

The woman whose son was alive, because she was stirred with compassion for her son, said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby—do not kill it!” But the other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours. Cut it in two!”

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.

Isaiah 66:13

As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; in Jerusalem you shall find your comfort.

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.

Leviticus 26:27

If, despite all this, you disobey and continue hostile to me,

Leviticus 26:29

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

Deuteronomy 28:52

They will besiege you in each of your communities, until the great, fortified walls, in which you trust, come tumbling down all over your land. They will besiege you in every community throughout the land which the Lord, your God, has given you,

Deuteronomy 28:53

and because of the siege and the distress to which your enemy subjects you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your own sons and daughters whom the Lord, your God, has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:57

the afterbirth that issues from her womb and the infants she brings forth because she secretly eats them for want of anything else—such the siege and distress to which your enemy will subject you in your communities. Plagues.