OLD TESTAMENT

2 Kings 6:29

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29

So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”

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Verse 29. Eat him. Strange cruelty! foretold Deuteronomy 28:53, and again verified at Jerusalem. Ezekiel 5:10.

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