2 Kings 6:28

New International Version

Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’

Cross References

Genesis 21:17

God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.

2 Samuel 14:5

The king asked her, “What is troubling you?” She said, “I am a widow; my husband is dead.

2 Kings 6:27

The king replied, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?”

Psalm 114:5

Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back?

Isaiah 22:1

A prophecy against the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up on the roofs,

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!

Lamentations 4:10

With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your 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 the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

Judges 18:23

As they shouted after them, the Danites turned and said to Micah, “What’s the matter with you that you called out your men to fight?”

1 Samuel 1:8

Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?”