2 Kings 6:29

World English Bible (2000)

So 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."

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:29 : 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
  • Deut 28:53 : 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.
  • Deut 28:57 : 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.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26 : 26 Then 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."
  • 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!
  • Isa 66:13 : 13 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    93%

    28 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.'

  • 2 Kgs 6:30-31
    2 verses
    79%

    30 It 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.

    31 Then 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."

  • Lev 26:29
    77%

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

  • 1 Kgs 3:19-23
    5 verses
    76%

    19 This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.

    20 She 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.

    21 When 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."

    22 The 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.

    23 Then 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.'"

  • Lam 4:10
    74%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 Your 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.

    7 Behold, 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 3:25-27
    3 verses
    73%

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

    26 Then 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."

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

  • Jer 19:9
    72%

    9 I 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.

  • Mic 3:3
    72%

    3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-20
    4 verses
    72%

    17 It 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.

    18 She 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!"

    19 He 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.

    20 He 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 Kgs 9:33-34
    2 verses
    71%

    33 He said, "Throw her down!" So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.

    34 When 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."

  • Deut 28:53
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 28:55-57
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 17:11-13
    3 verses
    70%

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

    12 She 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."

    13 Elijah 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 3:27
    70%

    27 Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

  • 1 Sam 28:24
    69%

    24 The 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.

  • Ezek 16:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,

    21 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?

  • Gen 27:13
    69%

    13 His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."

  • Gen 27:17
    69%

    17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

  • 2 Sam 12:21
    68%

    21 Then 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."

  • 2 Kgs 4:40-41
    2 verses
    68%

    40 So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, "Man of God, there is death in the pot!" They could not eat of it.

    41 But 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.

  • 1 Kgs 19:21
    68%

    21 He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.

  • Zech 11:9
    68%

    9 Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh."

  • 2 Kgs 6:26
    68%

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

  • 1 Sam 14:28
    68%

    28 Then 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 4:19
    68%

    19 He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

  • 2 Sam 13:5
    68%

    5 Jonadab said to him, "Lay down on your bed, and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, 'Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.'"

  • 1 Sam 9:23
    68%

    23 Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, 'Set it aside.'"

  • Gen 27:8
    68%

    8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    68%

    15 Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, "Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw."

  • Job 6:7
    67%

    7 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.