2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
KJV
Coximus ergo filium meum, et comedimus. Dixique ei die altera : Da filium tuum, ut comedamus eum. Quæ abscondit filium suum.
Vulgate
καὶ ἡψήσαμεν τὸν υἱόν μου καὶ ἐφάγομεν αὐτόν, καὶ εἶπον πρός αὐτὴν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ δευτέρᾳ Δὸς τὸν υἱόν σου καὶ φάγωμεν αὐτόν· καὶ ἔκρυψεν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῆς.
LXX
So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son.
ASV
וַ/נְּבַשֵּׁ֥ל אֶת בְּנִ֖/י וַ/נֹּֽאכְלֵ֑/הוּ וָ/אֹמַ֨ר אֵלֶ֜י/הָ בַּ/יּ֣וֹם הָ/אַחֵ֗ר תְּנִ֤י אֶת בְּנֵ/ךְ֙ וְ/נֹ֣אכְלֶ֔/נּוּ וַ/תַּחְבִּ֖א אֶת בְּנָֽ/הּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 3:26 — Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let
- Deut 28:53 — And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall d
- Deut 28:57 — And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherew
- Lev 26:29 — And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.