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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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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So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
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So we boiled my son, and did eat him; and I said unto her on the next day: Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son.'
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Passages linked to 2 Kings 6:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 26:29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
- Deuteronomy 28:53 You will 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 will distress you.
- Deuteronomy 28:57 toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
- 1 Kings 3:26 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 him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
- Isaiah 49:15 “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!
- Isaiah 66:13 As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 6:29 So we boiled my son, and did…
2Ki 6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
Ver. 29. So we boiled my son, and did eat him.] Male suada fames, made her require of her child that life, which not long before she had given it; laying him not in her bosom, but in her bowels. This was forethreatened. {Lev 26:29}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain We boiled my son, and did eat him; a…
We boiled my son, and did eat him; a dreadful judgment, threatened to them in case of their apostacy, Deu 28:56,57, in which they were now deeply plunged. Compare Eze 5:10.
She hath hid her son; either that she might eat him alone; or rather, that she might save him from death; her bowels yearning towards him, and her hunger being in great measure satisfied.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then he said, God do so and more also…
Then he said, God do so and more also to me,.... He swore and made dreadful imprecations:
if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day; imputing the sore famine to him, because he had foretold it, and did not pray for the removal of it, as he might; and perhaps had advised and encouraged the king to hold out the siege, which had brought them to this extremity, and therefore was enraged at him.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain We boiled - A dreadful judgment threatened to them…
We boiled - A dreadful judgment threatened to them in case of their apostacy, Deut. xxviii, 56, 57, in which they were now deeply plunged.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 29. So we boiled my son] This is…
Verse 29. So we boiled my son] This is horrible; but for the sake of humanity we must allow that the children died through hunger, and then became food for their starved, desperate parents.
She hath hid her son.] He was already dead, says Jarchi; and she hid him, that she might eat him alone.
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This very evil Moses had foretold should come upon them if they forsook God; see De 28:53; De 28:57. The same evil came upon this wretched people when besieged by Nebuchadnezzar; see Eze 5:10. And also when Titus besieged Jerusalem; see Josephus, De Bell. Judaic. lib. vi., cap. 3, and Clarke's notes on "Mt 24:19".
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The prophecy alluded to in the marginal references was…
The prophecy alluded to in the marginal references was now fulfilled, probably for the first time. It had a second accomplishment when Jerusalem was besieged by Nebuchadnezzar Lam 4:10, and a third in the final siege of the same city by Titus.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Eat him. Strange cruelty! foretold [in] Deuteronomy xxviii. 53,…
Eat him. Strange cruelty! foretold [in] Deuteronomy xxviii. 53, and again verified at Jerusalem, Ezechiel v. 10.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain we boiled my son, and did eat him--(See on…
we boiled my son, and did eat him--(See on Deu 28:53).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 29. We boiled my son — Probably after the…
29. We boiled my son — Probably after the child had himself died from hunger. This statement is another evidence of the awful extremity and starvation to which the Samaritans were driven by this siege of Ben-hadad.
This strife between these two mothers also shows how, in the bitterest hour of human misery, the lower passions will revel uncontrolled. But these were the very woes which Moses had foretold would come in case of disobedience. See Deu_28:53.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 29. she hath hid her son] So hath famine…
29. she hath hid her son] So hath famine changed the nature of those whom Jeremiah calls ‘the pitiful women’. The king cannot answer such an appeal, though starvation have made the mother feel that it is a just one.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (29) she hath hid her son.—Perhaps to save him.…
(29) she hath hid her son.—Perhaps to save him. (Comp. 1Ki_3:26.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain So we boiled my son, Lam_4:10, "The hands of…
So we boiled my son, Lam_4:10, "The hands of the pitiful woman have sodden their own children" and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. Some have supposed that the woman concealed her child in order to consume it alone; but it is more probable that, when the time came for carrying out her agreement, she found that she could not give it up, and hid it in order to save it.
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