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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 6:29 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 6:29 |
Strong Concordance |
So we boiled [01310] my son [01121], and did eat [0398] him: and I said [0559] unto her on the next [0312] day [03117], Give [05414] thy son [01121], that we may eat [0398] him: and she hath hid [02244] her son [01121]. |
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King James |
So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| we boiled my son, and did eat him--(See on Deu 28:53). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The prophecy alluded to in the marginal references was now fulfilled, probably for the first time. It had a second accomplishment when Jerusalem was besieged by Nebuchadnezzar Lam 4:10, and a third in the final siege of the same city by Titus. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| We boiled - A dreadful judgment threatened to them in case of their apostacy, Deu 28:56-57, in which they were now deeply plunged. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
So we boiled my son - This is horrible; but for the sake of humanity we must allow that the children died through hunger, and then became food for their starved, desperate parents.
She hath hid her son - He was already dead, says Jarchi; and she hid him, that she might eat him alone.
This very evil Moses had foretold should come upon them if they forsook God; see Deu 28:53-57. The same evil came upon this wretched people when besieged by Nebuchadnezzar; see Eze 5:10. And also when Titus besieged Jerusalem; see Josephus, De Bell. Judaic. lib. vi., cap. 3, and my notes on Mat 24:19. |
53 And thou shalt eat [0398] the fruit [06529] of thine own body [0990], the flesh [01320] of thy sons [01121] and of thy daughters [01323], which the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hath given [05414] thee, in the siege [04692], and in the straitness [04689], wherewith thine enemies [0341] shall distress [06693] thee:
10 The hands [03027] of the pitiful [07362] women [0802] have sodden [01310] their own children [03206]: they were their meat [01262] in the destruction [07667] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971].
56 The tender [07390] and delicate [06028] woman among you, which would not adventure [05254] to set [03322] the sole [03709] of her foot [07272] upon the ground [0776] for delicateness [06026] and tenderness [07391], her eye [05869] shall be evil [03415] toward the husband [0376] of her bosom [02436], and toward her son [01121], and toward her daughter [01323],
57 And toward her young one [07988] that cometh out [03318] from between her feet [07272], and toward her children [01121] which she shall bear [03205]: for she shall eat [0398] them for want [02640] of all things secretly [05643] in the siege [04692] and straitness [04689], wherewith thine enemy [0341] shall distress [06693] thee in thy gates [08179].
19 And [1161] woe [3759] unto them that are [2192] with [1722] child [1064], and [2532] to them that give suck [2337] in [1722] those [1565] days [2250]!
10 Therefore the fathers [01] shall eat [0398] the sons [01121] in the midst [08432] of thee, and the sons [01121] shall eat [0398] their fathers [01]; and I will execute [06213] judgments [08201] in thee, and the whole remnant [07611] of thee will I scatter [02219] into all the winds [07307].
53 And thou shalt eat [0398] the fruit [06529] of thine own body [0990], the flesh [01320] of thy sons [01121] and of thy daughters [01323], which the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hath given [05414] thee, in the siege [04692], and in the straitness [04689], wherewith thine enemies [0341] shall distress [06693] thee:
54 So that the man [0376] that is tender [07390] among you, and very [03966] delicate [06028], his eye [05869] shall be evil [03415] toward his brother [0251], and toward the wife [0802] of his bosom [02436], and toward the remnant [03499] of his children [01121] which he shall leave [03498]:
55 So that he will not give [05414] to any [0259] of them of the flesh [01320] of his children [01121] whom he shall eat [0398]: because he hath nothing left [07604] him in the siege [04692], and in the straitness [04689], wherewith thine enemies [0341] shall distress [06693] thee in all thy gates [08179].
56 The tender [07390] and delicate [06028] woman among you, which would not adventure [05254] to set [03322] the sole [03709] of her foot [07272] upon the ground [0776] for delicateness [06026] and tenderness [07391], her eye [05869] shall be evil [03415] toward the husband [0376] of her bosom [02436], and toward her son [01121], and toward her daughter [01323],
57 And toward her young one [07988] that cometh out [03318] from between her feet [07272], and toward her children [01121] which she shall bear [03205]: for she shall eat [0398] them for want [02640] of all things secretly [05643] in the siege [04692] and straitness [04689], wherewith thine enemy [0341] shall distress [06693] thee in thy gates [08179].