Leviticus 26:29
So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 6:28This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
Jeremiah 19:9And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives shall straiten them.
Lamentations 4:10Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Matthew 24:19And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck 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 →