Leviticus 26:29
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 walk contrary unto you in fury; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Cross References
2 Kings 6:28And 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.
Jeremiah 19:9and I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall straiten them.
Lamentations 4:10The hands of women full of compassion have sodden their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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 →