2 Kings 6:29

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

So we boiled my son, and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:53

And you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

Leviticus 26:29

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

Deuteronomy 28:57

her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because she will eat them secretly, for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

Isaiah 66:13

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

1 Kings 3:26

Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means slay it.” But the other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.”

Leviticus 26:27

“And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, but walk contrary to me,

Deuteronomy 28:52

They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which 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 the daughter of my people.