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2 Kings 6:28
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2 Kings 6:28
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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.
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2 Kings 6:28
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2 Kings 6:28
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28 Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?”
She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’
2 Kings 6:29
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2 Kings 6:29
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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.”
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2 Kings 6:29
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2 Kings 6:29
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29 So we cooked my son and ate(A) him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”
Lamentations 4:10
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Lamentations 4:10
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10 (A) Life in the city is so bad
that loving mothers have boiled
and eaten their own children.
Lamentations 4:10
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Lamentations 4:10
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10 With their own hands compassionate women
have cooked their own children,(A)
who became their food
when my people were destroyed.
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