2 Kings 6:28

Besieged Samaria Resorts To Cannibalism

²⁷ He said, “If the Lord does not help you, from where shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?” ²⁸ And the king said to her, “What is the matter with you?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ ²⁹ 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’; but she has hidden her son.”

Let Us

Judges 18:23

They cried to the sons of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you, that you have assembled together?”

Genesis 21:17

God heard the lad crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Leviticus 26:29

Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.

Deuteronomy 28:53-57

Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you.

1 Samuel 1:8

Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat and why is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

2 Samuel 14:5

The king said to her, “What is your trouble?” And she answered, “Truly I am a widow, for my husband is dead.

Psalm 114:5

What ails you, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?

Isaiah 9:20-21

They slice off what is on the right hand but still are hungry,
And they eat what is on the left hand but they are not satisfied;
Each of them eats the flesh of his own arm.

Isaiah 22:1

The oracle concerning the valley of vision.
What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her nursing child
And have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women
Boiled their own children;
They became food for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.

Matthew 24:18-21

Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’