2 Kings 6:28

This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

In Context

27And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her: What aileth thee? And she answered:

29So 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.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:29So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.

Judges 18:23And began to shout out after them. They looked back, and said to Michas: What aileth thee? Why dost thou cry?

2 Samuel 14:5And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She answered: Alas, I am a widow woman: for my husband is dead.

Isaiah 9:20And he shall turn to the right hand, and shall be hungry: and shall eat on the left hand, and shall not be filled: every one shell eat the flesh of his own arm: Manasses Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasses, and they together shall be against Juda.

Isaiah 49:15Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Ezekiel 5:10Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers: and I will execute judgments in thee, and I will scatter thy whole remnant into every wind.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 6:25-33

The Siege of Samaria. ( b. c. 891.) 24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the Lord do not… Read the whole commentary →

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