Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the bodies of your own sons and daughters.

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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

28then I will take action against you in a rage of fury, and I will punish you myself seven times over for your sins.

30I will destroy your high places of worship, smash your altars of incense, and pile up your dead bodies on what remains of your idols, which also have no life at all. I will really despise you.

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Cross References

2 Kings 6:28But then he asked her, “What's the problem?” “This woman told me, ‘Give up your son and we'll eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son,’” she answered.

Jeremiah 19:9The siege brought by their enemies who want to kill them will be so terrible that I will make them eat each other, even their own sons and daughters.

Lamentations 4:10The hands of loving women have cooked their own children to eat during the destruction of Jerusalem.

Matthew 24:19How awful it will be for those who are pregnant, and those who are nursing babies at that time!

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 →

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