Leviticus 26:29
Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 6:28And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.
Jeremiah 19:9I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.
Lamentations 4:10The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Matthew 24:19But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 26:15-40
Threatenings. ( b. c. 1490.) 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face… Read the whole commentary →