2 Kings 6:29 - Tree of Life Version So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I told her: ‘Give your son that we may eat him’—but she hid her son.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, Give your son so we may eat him, but she had hidden her son. American Standard Version (1901) So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son. Common English Bible So we cooked and ate my son. The next day I said to her, ‘Hand over your son so we can eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.” Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, we cooked my son, and we ate him. And I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, so that we may eat him.' But she concealed her son." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day: Give thy son that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son. |
Then the woman whose son was the living one spoke up to the king—for her heart grew tender for her son—and said, “My lord, please! Give her the living child! Only don’t kill him!” But the other said, “It will be neither mine nor yours! Cut it in two!”
“Can a woman forget her nursing baby or lack compassion for a child of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you.
As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you, so you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
The hands of compassionate women boiled their own children. They became their food when the daughter of my people were destroyed.
“Yet if in spite of this you will not listen to Me but walk contrary to Me,
You will eat the flesh of your sons and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
It will besiege you within all your town gates throughout your land, until your high and fortified walls—that you trusted in—come down. It will besiege you within all your gates throughout your land that Adonai your God has given you.
“You will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters Adonai your God has given you, in the siege and stress with which your enemies will distress you.
For in secret she will eat her afterbirth that issues from between her legs and the children she bears, for lack of anything else in the siege and stress with which your enemy will distress you within all your gates.