Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
This was literally fulfilled at the siege of jerusalem
Bible References
This was literally fulfilled at the siege of jerusalem
2 Kings 6:28
Then the king asked her, “What’s the matter?”
She said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.’
She said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.’
Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them.
Lamentations 2:20
ר ReshLord, look and consider
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,
the infants they have nurtured?
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,
the infants they have nurtured?
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
Lamentations 4:10
י YodThe hands of compassionate women
have cooked their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.
have cooked their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.
Ezekiel 5:10
As a result, fathers will eat their sons within Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.
Matthew 24:19 Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!
Luke 23:29 Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’