2 Kings 6:27-29

Contemporary English Version

²⁷ “Let the Lord help you!” the king said. “Do you think I have grain or wine to give you?” ²⁸ Then he asked, “What's the matter anyway?”

The woman answered, “Another woman and I were so hungry that we agreed to eat our sons. She said if we ate my son one day, we could eat hers the next day. ^29 (A) So yesterday we cooked my son and ate him. But today when I went to her house to eat her son, she had hidden him.”