Bible Cross References
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
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 6:28
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.
2 Kings 6:29
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!"
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 2:20
Look, O LORD! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself !
Lamentations 4:10
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
Ezekiel 5:10
As a result, parents in Jerusalem will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter in every direction any who are left alive.
Matthew 24:19
How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies!
Luke 23:29
For the days are coming when people will say, 'How lucky are the women who never had children, who never bore babies, who never nursed them!'