2 Kings 6:29
Good News Translation
So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I told her that we would eat her son, but she had hidden him!"

New Revised Standard Version
So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son and we will eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”

Contemporary English Version
So yesterday we cooked my son and ate him. But today when I went to her house to eat her son, she had hidden him."

New American Bible
So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Now give up your son that we may eat him.’ But she hid her son.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day: Give thy son, that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day: Give thy son, that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.

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1 Kings 3:26 But the woman, whose child was alive, said to the king; (for her bowels were moved upon her child) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the child alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither mine nor thine; but divide it.

Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Isaiah 66:13 As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Context
The Siege and Famine of Samaria
28This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. 29So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day: Give thy son, that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.30When the king heard this, he rent his garments, and passed by upon the wall. And all the people saw the haircloth which he wore within next to his flesh.…
Cross References
Leviticus 26:27
But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk against me

Leviticus 26:29
So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.

Deuteronomy 28:52
And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high wall be brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will give thee:

Deuteronomy 28:53
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in the distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee.

Deuteronomy 28:57
And the filth of the afterbirths, that come forth from between her thighs, and the children that are born the same hour. For they shall eat them secretly for the want of all things, in the siege and distress, wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates.

Lamentations 4:10
Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

2 Kings 6:28
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