Leviticus 26:29
New King James Version
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- Leviticus 26:29 In time of famine
Deuteronomy 28:53
New King James Version
53 (A)You shall eat the [a]fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you.
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- Deuteronomy 28:53 offspring
2 Kings 6:29
New King James Version
29 So (A)we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”
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Jeremiah 19:9
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9 And I will cause them to eat the (A)flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair.” ’
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Lamentations 2:20
New King James Version
20 “See, O Lord, and consider!
To whom have You done this?
(A)Should the women eat their offspring,
The children [a]they have cuddled?
Should the priest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
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- Lamentations 2:20 Vg. a span long
Lamentations 4:10
New King James Version
10 The hands of the (A)compassionate women
Have [a]cooked their (B)own children;
They became (C)food for them
In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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- Lamentations 4:10 boiled
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