Bible Cross References
that they may
Isaiah 9:20
Everywhere in the country people snatch and eat any bit of food they can find, but their hunger is never satisfied. They even eat their own children!
Leviticus 26:29
Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.
Deuteronomy 28:53-57
53
"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
54
Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
56
Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
2 Kings 6:25-29
25
As a result of the siege the food shortage in the city was so severe that a donkey's head cost eighty pieces of silver, and half a pound of dove's dung cost five pieces of silver.
26
The king of Israel was walking by on the city wall when a woman cried out, "Help me, Your Majesty!"
27
He replied, "If the LORD won't help you, what help can I provide? Do I have any wheat or wine?
28
What's your trouble?" She answered, "The other day this woman here suggested that we eat my child, and then eat her child the next day.
29
So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I told her that we would eat her son, but she had hidden him!"
2 Kings 18:27
He replied, "Do you think you and the king are the only ones the emperor sent me to say all these things to? No, I am also talking to the people who are sitting on the wall, who will have to eat their excrement and drink their urine, just as you will."
Jeremiah 19:9
The enemy will surround the city and try to kill its people. The siege will be so terrible that the people inside the city will eat one another and even their own children."
Lamentations 4:9
Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.
Lamentations 4:10
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
Ezekiel 4:16
And he added, "Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink.