2 Kings 6:28

World English Bible (2000)

The 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.'

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  • Judg 18:23 : 23 They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, "What ails you, that you come with such a company?"
  • 2 Sam 14:5 : 5 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Ezek 5:10 : 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.
  • Matt 24:18-21 : 18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes. 19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days! 20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath, 21 for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
  • Ps 114:5 : 5 What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
  • Isa 9:20-21 : 20 One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm: 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Isa 22:1 : 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?
  • Isa 49:15 : 15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
  • 1 Sam 1:8 : 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"
  • Gen 21:17 : 17 God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
  • Lev 26:29 : 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
  • Deut 28:53-57 : 53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining; 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 6:29-31
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    93%

    29So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him;' and she has hidden her son."

    30It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.

    31Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day."

  • 1 Kgs 3:20-27
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    78%

    20She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

    21When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore."

    22The other woman said, "No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son." This said, "No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son." Thus they spoke before the king.

    23Then the king said, "The one says, 'This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;' and the other says, 'No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.'"

    24The king said, "Get me a sword." They brought a sword before the king.

    25The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other."

    26Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it!" But the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide it."

    27Then the king answered, "Give her the living child, and in no way kill it. She is its mother."

  • 2 Kgs 6:26-27
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    77%

    26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"

    27He said, "If Yahweh doesn't help you, from where could I help you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?"

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-20
    4 verses
    74%

    17It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

    18She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!"

    19He said to her, "Give me your son." He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

    20He cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I stay, by killing her son?"

  • 2 Sam 14:5-7
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    5The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

    6Your handmaid had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

    7Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."

  • 1 Kgs 17:11-13
    3 verses
    73%

    11As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."

    12She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."

    13Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

  • 2 Kgs 8:6
    73%

    6When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now."

  • 2 Sam 14:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Then she said, "Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth."

    12Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

    16For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

  • Lev 26:29
    72%

    29You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

  • Deut 28:55-57
    3 verses
    72%

    55so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

    57and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • 2 Sam 14:18
    71%

    18Then the king answered the woman, "Please don't hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak."

  • 1 Sam 28:22-24
    3 verses
    71%

    22Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way."

    23But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed.

    24The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1
    71%

    1Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years."

  • Mark 6:24
    71%

    24She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."

  • 2 Kgs 9:34
    71%

    34When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, "See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter."

  • Lam 4:10
    71%

    10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • 1 Sam 14:28
    71%

    28Then one of the people answered, and said, "Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, 'Cursed is the man who eats food this day.'" The people were faint.

  • 2 Kgs 4:41
    71%

    41But he said, "Then bring meal." He cast it into the pot; and he said, "Pour out for the people, that they may eat." There was no harm in the pot.

  • Prov 31:2
    70%

    2"Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!

  • 2 Kgs 4:19
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    19He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

  • 2 Kgs 4:28
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    28Then she said, "Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me?"

  • 2 Kgs 6:21
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    21The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?"

  • 2 Sam 12:21
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    21Then his servants said to him, "What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread."

  • Deut 28:53
    69%

    53You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.