Bible Cross References
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Leviticus 26:29
Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.
Deuteronomy 28:53-57
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"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
54
Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
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Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
Deuteronomy 28:64-57
2 Kings 6:29
So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I told her that we would eat her son, but she had hidden him!"
Isaiah 9:20
Everywhere in the country people snatch and eat any bit of food they can find, but their hunger is never satisfied. They even eat their own children!
Isaiah 49:26
I will make your oppressors kill each other; they will be drunk with murder and rage. Then all people will know that I am the LORD, the one who saves you and sets you free. They will know that I am Israel's powerful God."
Jeremiah 19:9
The enemy will surround the city and try to kill its people. The siege will be so terrible that the people inside the city will eat one another and even their own children."
Lamentations 2:20
Look, O LORD! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself !
Lamentations 4:10
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
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Ezekiel 5:2
Burn up a third of it in the city when the siege is over. Take another third and chop it up with your sword as you move around outside the city. Scatter the remaining third to the winds, and I will pursue it with my sword.
Ezekiel 5:12
A third of your people will die from sickness and hunger in the city; a third will be cut down by swords outside the city; and I will scatter the last third to the winds and pursue them with a sword.
Ezekiel 6:8
"I will let some escape the slaughter and be scattered among the nations,
Ezekiel 12:14
I will scatter in every direction all the members of his court and his advisers and bodyguards, and people will search for them to kill them.
Ezekiel 20:23
So I made another vow in the desert. I vowed that I would scatter them all over the world.
Ezekiel 22:15
I will scatter your people to every country and nation and will put an end to your evil actions.
Ezekiel 36:19
I condemned them for the way they lived and acted, and I scattered them through foreign countries.
Leviticus 26:33
I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.
Deuteronomy 4:27
The LORD will scatter you among other nations, where only a few of you will survive.
Deuteronomy 28:64
"The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.
Deuteronomy 32:26
I would have destroyed them completely, so that no one would remember them.
Nehemiah 1:8
Remember now what you told Moses: 'If you people of Israel are unfaithful to me, I will scatter you among the other nations.
Psalm 44:11
You allowed us to be slaughtered like sheep; you scattered us in foreign countries.
Jeremiah 9:16
I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have heard about, and I will send armies against them until I have completely destroyed them."
Jeremiah 44:12
As for the people of Judah who are left and are determined to go and live in Egypt, I will see to it that all of them are destroyed. All of them, great and small, will die in Egypt, either in war or of starvation. They will be a horrifying sight; people will make fun of them and use their name as a curse.
Jeremiah 50:17
The LORD says, "The people of Israel are like sheep, chased and scattered by lions. First, they were attacked by the emperor of Assyria, and then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia gnawed on their bones.
Amos 9:9
"I will give the command and shake the people of Israel like grain in a sieve. I will shake them among the nations to remove all who are worthless.
Zechariah 2:6
The LORD said to his people, "I scattered you in all directions. But now, you exiles, escape from Babylonia and return to Jerusalem.
Zechariah 7:14
Like a storm I swept them away to live in foreign countries. This good land was left a desolate place, with no one living in it."
Luke 21:24
Some will be killed by the sword, and others will be taken as prisoners to all countries; and the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time is up.