Matthew 24:19
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19 How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for nursing mothers in those days.
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Deuteronomy 28:53-56
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53 “The siege and terrible distress of the enemy’s attack will be so severe that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you. 54 The most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassion for his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children. 55 He will refuse to share with them the flesh he is devouring—the flesh of one of his own children—because he has nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns. 56 The most tender and delicate woman among you—so delicate she would not so much as touch the ground with her foot—will be selfish toward the husband she loves and toward her own son or daughter.
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Luke 23:29-30
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29 For the days are coming when they will say, ‘Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.’ 30 People will beg the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and plead with the hills, ‘Bury us.’[a]
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Luke 21:23
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23 How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for nursing mothers in those days. For there will be disaster in the land and great anger against this people.
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Mark 13:17-18
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17 How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for nursing mothers in those days. 18 And pray that your flight will not be in winter.
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Lamentations 4:10
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10 Tenderhearted women
have cooked their own children.
They have eaten them
to survive the siege.
Hosea 13:16
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16 [a]The people of Samaria
must bear the consequences of their guilt
because they rebelled against their God.
They will be killed by an invading army,
their little ones dashed to death against the ground,
their pregnant women ripped open by swords.”
Footnotes
- 13:16 Verse 16 is numbered 14:1 in Hebrew text.
Lamentations 4:3-4
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3 Even the jackals feed their young,
but not my people Israel.
They ignore their children’s cries,
like ostriches in the desert.
4 The parched tongues of their little ones
stick to the roofs of their mouths in thirst.
The children cry for bread,
but no one has any to give them.
2 Kings 15:16
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Menahem Rules in Israel
16 At that time Menahem destroyed the town of Tappuah[a] and all the surrounding countryside as far as Tirzah, because its citizens refused to surrender the town. He killed the entire population and ripped open the pregnant women.
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- 15:16 As in some Greek manuscripts; Hebrew reads Tiphsah.
2 Samuel 4:4
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4 (Saul’s son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth,[a] who was crippled as a child. He was five years old when the report came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan had been killed in battle. When the child’s nurse heard the news, she picked him up and fled. But as she hurried away, she dropped him, and he became crippled.)
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- 4:4 Mephibosheth is another name for Merib-baal.
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