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2 Kings 6:29
“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.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 6
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.
Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day.
About 2 Kings
The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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