2 Kings 6:28

New Century Version

Then the king said to her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we can eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.’

Cross References

Genesis 21:17

God heard the boy crying, and God’s angel called to Hagar from heaven. He said, “What is wrong, Hagar? Don’t be afraid! God has heard the boy crying there.

2 Samuel 14:5

King David asked her, “What is the matter?” The woman said, “I am a widow; my husband is dead.

2 Kings 6:27

The king said, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, how can I? Can I get help from the threshing floor or from the winepress?”

Psalm 114:5

Sea, why did you run away? Jordan, why did you turn back?

Isaiah 22:1

This is a message about the Valley of Vision: What is wrong with you people? Why are you on your roofs?

Isaiah 49:15

The Lord answers, “Can a woman forget the baby she nurses? Can she feel no kindness for the child to which she gave birth? Even if she could forget her children, I will not forget you.

Lamentations 4:10

With their own hands kind women cook their own children. They became food when my people were destroyed.

Ezekiel 5:10

So parents among you will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and will scatter to the winds all who are left alive.

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 cannot have children and who have no babies to nurse.’

Judges 18:23

The men with Micah shouted at the Danites, who turned around and said to Micah, “What’s the matter with you? Why have you been called out to fight?”

1 Samuel 1:8

Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you crying and why won’t you eat? Why are you sad? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?”