2 Kings 6:29

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:53

In the desperate straits to which the enemy siege reduces you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your own sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you.

Leviticus 26:29

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

Deuteronomy 28:57

begrudging even the afterbirth that comes out from between her thighs and the children that she bears, because she is eating them in secret for lack of anything else, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in your towns.

Isaiah 66:13

As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 49:15

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

1 Kings 3:26

But the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because compassion for her son burned within her, “Please, my lord, give her the living boy; certainly do not kill him!” The other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.”

Leviticus 26:27

“But if, despite this, you disobey me and continue hostile to me,

Deuteronomy 28:52

It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout your land; it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout the land that the Lord your God has given you.

Lamentations 4:10

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