2 Kings 6:28

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

But then the king asked her, “What is your complaint?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son; we will eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

Cross References

Genesis 21:17

And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

2 Samuel 14:5

The king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.

2 Kings 6:27

He said, “No! Let the Lord help you. How can I help you? From the threshing floor or from the wine press?”

Psalm 114:5

Why is it, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

Isaiah 22:1

The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.

Ezekiel 5:10

Surely, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents; I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to every wind.

Leviticus 26:29

You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

Luke 23:29

For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

Judges 18:23

They shouted to the Danites, who turned around and said to Micah, “What is the matter that you come with such a company?”

1 Samuel 1:8

Her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? Why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”