Leviticus 26:29

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Leviticus 26:29

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

Luke 23:29

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This was literally fulfilled at the siege of jerusalem

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.’

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them.”’

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?

The hands of compassionate women

Boiled their own children;

They became food for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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.

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

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.’