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 will hear the voice of the child: and the messenger of God will call to Hagar from the heavens, and will say to her, What to thee Hagar? thou. shalt not fear, for God heard the voice of the child, from where he is.

And they will call to the sons of Dan, and they will turn their faces and say to Micah, What to thee that thou criedst out?

And Elkanah her man will say to her, Hannah, why wilt thou weep? and why wilt thou not eat? and why will thy heart break? am I not good to thee above ten sons?

And the king will say to her, What to thee? And she will say, Truly I a widow woman, and my husband will die.

What to thee, O sea, that thou wilt flee? O Jordan, thou wilt turn away back?

The burden of the valley of vision. What to thee now, that thou wentest up all of thee, to the roofs?

Give thy son

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

And thou atest the fruit of thy belly, the flesh of thy sons and thy daughters, which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, in the distress and in the straitness which thine enemy shall press upon thee:

And he shall cut upon the right hand, and hungering; and he shall eat upon the left, and they were not satisfied: they shall eat a man the flesh of his arm.

Shall a woman forget her child, from pitying the son of her womb? also these shall forget, and I shall not forget thee.

The hands of compassionate women boiled their children: they were for food to them in the breaking of the daughter of my people.

For this the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I did judgments in thee, and I scattered all thy remnant to every wind.

And he in the field, let him not turn back to take up his garments:

For, behold, the days are coming in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and the wombs which never brought forth, and the breasts which gave not suck.