2 Kings 6:28

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Summary

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

What aileth thee

Give thy son

Bible References

What aileth thee

And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?

Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Give thy son

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

And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

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

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.