2 Kings 6:28

New English Translation

Then the king asked her, “What’s your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’

Cross References

Genesis 21:17

But God heard the boy’s voice. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy’s voice right where he is crying.

2 Samuel 14:5

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

2 Kings 6:27

He replied, “No, let the Lord help you. How can I help you? The threshing floor and winepress are empty.”

Psalm 114:5

Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?

Isaiah 22:1

Here is a message about the Valley of Vision: What is the reason that all of you go up to the rooftops?

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed. כ (Kaf)

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

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

Luke 23:29

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

Judges 18:23

When they called out to the Danites, the Danites turned around and said to Micah, “Why have you gathered together?”

1 Samuel 1:8

Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”