Leviticus 26:29
You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
New Heart English Bible
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 to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Cross References
2 Kings 6:28The king said to her, "What ails you?"She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
Jeremiah 19:9I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them."'
Lamentations 4:10The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children;they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.KAPH
Matthew 24:19But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers 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 →