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 will say to her, What to thee? and she will say, This woman said to me, Thou shalt give thy son, and we will eat him this day, and my son we will eat to-morrow.
Jeremiah 19:9
And I caused them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his neighbor shall they eat in the straitness and in the distress which their enemies, and they seeking their souls, shall press upon them.
Lamentations 2:20
See, O Jehovah, and look to whom thou didst accomplish this Shall the women eat their fruit, the children borne upon the hands? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the holy place of Jehovah?
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women boiled their children: they were for food to them in the breaking of the daughter of my people.
Ezekiel 5:10
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.
Matthew 24:19
And woe to those having in the womb, and to those giving suck, in those days!
Luke 23:29
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.