Leviticus 26:29

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You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:10 : 10 י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.
  • Ezek 5:10 : 10 Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!
  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say,‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’
  • Deut 28:53-57 : 53 You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you. 54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children. 55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating(since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages. 56 Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters, 57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children(since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 Then the king asked her,“What’s your problem?” She answered,“This woman said to me,‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day,‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”
  • Jer 19:9 : 9 I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’”
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 ר(Resh)Jerusalem Speaks: Look, O LORD! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 28:53-57
    5 verses
    86%

    53You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

    54The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

    55He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating(since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

    56Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

    57and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children(since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

  • Jer 19:9
    85%

    9I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’”

  • Ezek 5:10
    82%

    10Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.

  • Lev 26:30
    81%

    30I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

  • Jer 5:17
    79%

    17They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.

  • Lev 26:38-39
    2 verses
    78%

    38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

    39Restoration through Confession and Repentance“‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ iniquities which are with them.

  • Ezek 16:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19As for my food that I gave you– the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you– you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    20“‘You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution was not enough,

    21you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

  • 2 Kgs 6:29
    77%

    29So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day,‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”

  • Lev 26:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.

    26When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

  • Mic 6:14
    76%

    14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.

  • Lev 26:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

    17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

  • Lev 26:28
    75%

    28I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

  • Ezek 23:25
    75%

    25I will direct my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors will die by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.

  • Lam 4:10
    75%

    10י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.

  • Jer 7:21
    75%

    21“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says to the people of Judah:‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!

  • Deut 28:32
    75%

    32Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

  • Isa 9:20
    75%

    20They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!

  • Ezek 24:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21Say to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary– the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion. Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword.

    22Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.

  • Jer 11:22
    75%

    22So the LORD of Heaven’s Armies said,“I will surely punish them! Their young men will be killed in battle. Their sons and daughters will die of starvation.

  • Mic 3:3
    75%

    3You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.

  • Jer 16:3
    74%

    3For I, the LORD, tell you what will happen to the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.

  • Deut 28:41
    74%

    41You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

  • Exod 22:24
    74%

    24and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

  • Zech 11:9
    74%

    9I then said,“I will not shepherd you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be eradicated, let it be eradicated. As for those who survive, let them eat each other’s flesh!”

  • Ezek 16:27
    73%

    27So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your obscene conduct.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18You will eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth– the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.

    19You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.

  • Ezek 23:47
    73%

    47That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.

  • Amos 7:17
    73%

    17“Therefore this is what the LORD says:‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets and your sons and daughters will die violently. Your land will be given to others and you will die in a foreign land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.’”

  • Lev 10:14
    73%

    14Also, the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering you must eat in a ceremonially clean place, you and your sons and daughters with you, for they have been given as your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the peace offering sacrifices of the Israelites.

  • Ezek 26:8
    73%

    8He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will build a siege wall against you, erect a siege ramp against you, and raise a great shield against you.

  • Lam 2:20
    73%

    20ר(Resh)Jerusalem Speaks: Look, O LORD! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?

  • Lev 26:22
    72%

    22I will send the wild animals against you and they will bereave you of your children, annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population so that your roads will become deserted.

  • Lev 26:33
    72%

    33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

  • Deut 12:27
    72%

    27You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.

  • Deut 28:51
    72%

    51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    72%

    14So look, the LORD is about to severely afflict your people, your sons, your wives, and all you own.

  • Jer 31:29
    72%

    29The Lord Will Make a New Covenant with Israel and Judah“When that time comes, people will no longer say,‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children’s teeth have grown numb.’

  • Exod 34:16
    72%

    16and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.