Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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
Bible References
This was literally fulfilled at the siege of jerusalem
2 Kings 6:28
And the king said to her - What aileth thee? And she said - This woman, said unto me - Give thy son, that we may eat him, to-day, and, my son, will we eat to-morrow.
Jeremiah 19:9
And I will suffer them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, yea every one - the flesh of his friend, will they eat, - in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith, their enemies, and they who seek their lives, will straiten them.
Lamentations 2:20
See, O Yahweh, and do consider, to whom thou hast acted thus severely, - Will women, devour, their own fruit - the children they have dandled? Shall priest and prophet, be slain in the sanctuary of My Lord?
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their own children, - they have served as nourishment to them, in the grievous injury of the daughter of my people.
Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore, fathers will eat sons in thy midst, And sons will eat fathers, - And I will execute upon thee judgments, And will scatter the whole remnant of thee, to every wind.
Matthew 24:19
But alas! for the women with child, and for them that are giving suck, in those days;
Luke 23:29
For lo! days are coming, in which they will say - Happy the barren! even the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.