Verse 29

And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.

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  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of the compassionate women have cooked 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 your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you I will scatter into all the winds.
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days!
  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed.
  • Deut 28:53-57 : 53 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you: 54 So that 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 which he shall leave: 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 enemies shall distress you in all your gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon 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 that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him: and she has hidden her son.
  • Jer 19:9 : 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend during the siege and distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their lives, shall distress them.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?