2 Kings 6:28
The king continued, “What is troubling you?” She answered, “This woman said to me, 'Give your son so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'”
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Leviticus 26:29You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
Judges 18:23They shouted to the Danites, and they turned and said to Micah, “Why have you been called together?”
2 Samuel 14:5The king said to her, “What is wrong?” She answered, “The truth is that I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
Isaiah 9:20They will grab food on the right hand but still be hungry; they will eat food on the left hand but will not be satisfied. 1 Each will even eat the flesh of his own arm. + 9:20 Instead of the flesh of his own arm , some versions have the flesh of his own children . 1
Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her baby, nursing at her breast, so she does not have compassion on the son she has borne? 1 Yes, they may forget, but I will not forget you. 1
Ezekiel 5:10Therefore fathers will eat the children in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers, since I will execute judgment on you and scatter to every direction all of you who are left.
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 →