Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Pitiful

General references

Bible References

Hands

Lamentations 4:3
Even jackals offer the breast,
They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has become cruel
Like ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 2:20
See, O Lord, and look!
With whom have You dealt thus?
Should women eat their offspring,
The little ones who were born healthy?
Should priest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
2 Kings 6:26
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

Pitiful

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.

In

Lamentations 3:48
My eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Deuteronomy 28:56
The refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and refinement, shall be hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter,
2 Kings 6:29
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.”

General references

Matthew 24:19
But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
Mark 13:17
But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

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