You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
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You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
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And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
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And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 26:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Lamentations 4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.
- Matthew 24:19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
- Deuteronomy 28:53-57 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. The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining, so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates. The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter, 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.
- 2 Kings 6:28-29 The king said to her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 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.”
- Jeremiah 19:9 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.” ’
- Lamentations 2:20 “Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Luke 23:29 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 26:29 And ye shall eat the flesh of…
Lev 26:29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
Ver. 29. And ye shall eat.] As they did. {2Ki 6:29 Lam 4:19} Pone pretium humanae corni, was once heard openly proclaimed at Rome in the reign of Honorius the Emperor. A hard case indeed. Here in England, in Edward II’s time, anno 1316, there was so terrible a famine, that horses, dogs, yea, men and children, were stolen for food, and the thieves newly brought into the jail were torn in pieces, and eaten presently half alive, by such as had been longer there. {a}
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{a} Alsted, Chron. Speed’s Hist.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Through extreme hunger. See Lam 4:10.
Through extreme hunger. See Lam 4:10.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I will destroy your high places,.... Which Jarchi…
And I will destroy your high places,.... Which Jarchi interprets of towers and palaces; but Aben Ezra of the place of sacrifices; for on high places, hills and mountains, they used to build altars, and there offer sacrifices, in imitation of the Heathens; See Gill on Eze 6:13,
and cut down your images; called Chammanim, either from Ham, the son of Noah, the first introducer of idolatrous worship after the flood, as some have thought; or from Jupiter Ammon, worshipped in Egypt, from whence the Jews might have these images; or rather from Chammah, the sun, so called from its heat; so Jarchi says, there were a sort of idols placed on the roofs of houses, and because they were set in the sun, they were called by this name; and Kimchi (s) observes they were made of wood, and made by the worshippers of the sun, see Kg2 23:11; but Aben Ezra is of opinion that these were temples built for the worship of the sun, which is the most early sort of idolatry that appeared in the world, to which Job may be thought to refer, Job 31:26. Some take these to be the or "fire hearths", which Strabo (t) described as large enclosures, in the midst of which was an altar, where the (Persian) Magi kept their fire that never went out, which was an emblem of the sun they worshipped; and these, he says, were in the temples of Anaitis and Omanus, and where the statue of the latter was in great pomp; which idol seems to have its name from the word in the text; and these are fitly added to the high places, because on such, as Herodotus (u) says, the Persians used to worship:
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and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols; or "dunghill gods" (w); such as the beetle, the Egyptians worshipped, signifying that they and their idols should be destroyed together:
and my soul shall abhor you; the reverse of Lev 26:6; and by comparing it with that, this may signify the removal of the divine Presence from them, as a token of his abhorrence of them; and so Jarchi and Aben Ezra interpret it.
(s) Sepher Shorash. rad. & (t) Geograph. l. 15. p. 504. (u) Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 131. (w) "stercoreorum deorum vestrorum", Junius & Trernellius, Piscator, Drusius.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The flesh of your sons - Through extreme hunger.…
The flesh of your sons - Through extreme hunger. See Lam. iv, 10.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 29. Ye shall eat the flesh of your…
Verse 29. Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, &c.] This was literally fulfilled at the siege of Jerusalem. Josephus, WARS of the Jews, book vii., chap. ii., gives us a particular instance in dreadful detail of a woman named Mary, who, in the extremity of the famine during the siege, killed her sucking child, roasted, and had eaten part of it when discovered by the soldiers! See this threatened, Jer 19:9.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 26:29. Ye shall eat the flesh of your…
Lev 26:29. Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons — Through extreme hunger. This is the very utmost calamity that could come upon a people. See it described at large, and in the most lively colours, Deu 28:53-57. It was fulfilled, first in the siege of Samaria, 2Ki 6:29; next in the siege of Jerusalem before the Babylonish captivity, Lam 4:10; and finally, in the last destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Daughters. To such extremities were the Jews reduced, at…
Daughters. To such extremities were the Jews reduced, at the sieges of Samaria and Jerusalem. (4 Kings vi. 28; Lamentations iv. 10.; Josephus, Jewish Wars vii. 8.)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain ye shall eat the flesh of your sons--The revolting…
ye shall eat the flesh of your sons--The revolting picture was actually exhibited at the siege of Samaria, at the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar (Lam 4:10), and at the destruction of that city by the Romans. (See on Deu 28:53).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 29. Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons…
29. Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons — This awful prediction was literally fulfilled in the siege of Jerusalem by Titus and the Roman army. Mary of Perea, a woman of high birth and great wealth, was so maddened by hunger that she killed, roasted, and ate one half of her sucking child. See Josephus, book vi, chap. Lev_3:4.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 29. Cp. Deu_28:53; Jer_19:9, and, for the fulfilment of…
29. Cp. Deu_28:53; Jer_19:9, and, for the fulfilment of the prophet’s words, Lam_4:10.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (29) And ye shall eat the flesh of your…
(29) And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons.—The harrowing scene here described is also depicted in Deu_28:53-57. This prediction actually came to pass at the siege of Samaria by the Syrians (2Ki_6:28-29), and at the siege of Jerusalem by the Chaldæans, which Jeremiah thus bewails, “the hands of pitiful women have sodden their own children, they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people” (Lam_4:10; comp. also Jer_19:9; Eze_5:10; Zec_11:9, &c.). This also happened at the siege of Jerusalem by Titus. A woman named Mary killed her infant child and boiled it during the height of the famine, and after she had eaten part of it, the soldiers found the rest in her house.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 I will destroy ... cut down ... throw your…
I will destroy ... cut down ... throw your corpses
Because God would send an army to do these things, he speaks as if he would do them. AT: "I will send an enemy army to destroy ... cut down ... throw your corpses" (See: Metonymy)
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your corpses
"your dead bodies"
the corpses of your idols
God speaks of idols not being alive as if they had been alive and then died. AT: "your lifeless idols" (See: Metaphor)
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flesh
high place
incense
altar
false god
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 26:29 Starvation would so pervade the land that when…
26:29 Starvation would so pervade the land that when a child died of hunger, he or she would be eaten, in pagan fashion, by the others in the family (Deut 28:53-57; see 2 Kgs 6:24-31; Lam 2:20; cp. 2 Kgs 3:27).
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