2 Kings 6:29

New International Reader's Version

So we cooked my son. Then we ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son. Then we can eat him.’ But she had hidden him.”

Cross References

1 Kings 3:26

The woman whose son was alive was filled with deep love for her son. She said to the king, “My master, please give her the living baby! Don’t kill him!” But the other woman said, “Neither one of us will have him. Cut him in two!”

Isaiah 49:15

The Lord answers, “Can a mother forget the baby who is nursing at her breast? Can she stop having tender love for the child who was born to her? She might forget her child. But I will not forget you.

Isaiah 66:13

As a mother comforts her child, I will comfort you. You will find comfort in Jerusalem.”

Lamentations 4:10

With their own hands, loving mothers have had to cook even their own children. They ate their children when my people were destroyed.

Leviticus 26:27

“ ‘After all that, suppose you still do not listen to me. And suppose you continue to be my enemy.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the dead bodies of your sons. You will also eat the dead bodies of your daughters.

Deuteronomy 28:52

They’ll surround all the cities throughout your whole land. They’ll attack those cities until the high, strong walls you trust in fall down. That’s what will happen to the cities in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:53

Your enemies will surround you and attack you. They will make you suffer greatly. So you will eat your own children. You will eat the dead bodies of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:57

She will eat what comes out of her body after she has a baby. Then she’ll even eat her baby. She won’t share it with anyone in her family. In her great hunger she’ll plan to eat it in secret. There won’t be anything else for her to eat because the city she lives in will be surrounded. That’s an example of how much your enemies will make you suffer when they are attacking your cities.