Leviticus 26:29
29 aYou shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.Deuteronomy 28:56-57
56 bThe most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, ▼▼Hebrew the husband of her bosom
to her son and to her daughter, 57her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, din the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns. 2 Kings 6:28-29
28And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 eSo we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”2 Kings 11:1-2
Athaliah Reigns in Judah
1 fNow when gAthaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family. 2But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took hJoash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put ▼▼Compare 2 Chronicles 22:11; Hebrew lacks and she put
him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus they ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate (compare 2 Chronicles 22:11) she
hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death. Lamentations 4:3
3 Even jackals offer the breast;they nurse their young;
but the daughter of my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:10
10 kThe hands of lcompassionate womenmhave boiled their own children;
nthey became their food
during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Romans 1:31
31foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
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