Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

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Bible References

In the siege

Jeremiah 5:10
Go you up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not the LORD's.
Jeremiah 34:2
Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
Jeremiah 52:6
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

General references

Matthew 24:19
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that nurse a child in those days!