World English Bible
2 Kings 6:28
“The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 6
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!
He said, "If Yahweh doesn't help you, from where could I help you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?
The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him;' and she has hidden her son.
It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.
About 2 Kings
The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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