We boiled my son, and did eat him; a dreadful judgment, threatened to them in case of their apostacy, Deuteronomy 28:56,57, in which they were now deeply plunged. Compare Ezekiel 5:10. She hath hid her son; either that she might eat him alone; or rather, that she might save him from death; her bowels yearning towards him, and her hunger being in great measure satisfied.
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2 Kings 6:29
29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the nextg day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.