Leviticus 26:29

'And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat.

Young's Literal Translation

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 have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

30And I have destroyed your high places, and cut down your images, and have put your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and My soul hath loathed you;

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Cross References

2 Kings 6:28And the king saith to her, 'What — to thee?' and she saith, 'This woman said unto me, Give thy son, and we eat him to-day, and my son we eat to-morrow;

Jeremiah 19:9And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his friend they do eat, in the siege and in the straitness with which straiten them do their enemies, and those seeking their life.

Lamentations 4:10The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Matthew 24:19'And woe to those with child, and to those giving 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 →

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