Verse 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!”

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:29 : 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
• Deut 28:53 : 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.
• Deut 28:57 : 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.
• 1 Kgs 3:26 : 26 The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said,“My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” But the other woman said,“Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”
• Isa 49:15 : 15 Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!
• Isa 66:13 : 13 As a mother consoles a child, so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”