Bible Cross References
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Deuteronomy 28:53-56
53
"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.
56
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.
2 Samuel 4:4
Another descendant of Saul was Jonathan's son Mephibosheth, who was five years old when Saul and Jonathan were killed. When the news about their death came from the city of Jezreel, his nurse picked him up and fled; but she was in such a hurry that she dropped him, and he became crippled.
2 Kings 15:16
As Menahem was on his way from Tirzah, he completely destroyed the city of Tappuah, its inhabitants, and the surrounding territory, because the city did not surrender to him. He even ripped open the bellies of all the pregnant women.
Lamentations 4:3
Even a mother wolf will nurse her cubs, but my people are like ostriches, cruel to their young.
Lamentations 4:4
They let their babies die of hunger and thirst; children are begging for food that no one will give them.
Lamentations 4:10
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria must be punished for rebelling against me. Her people will die in war; babies will be dashed to the ground, and pregnant women will be ripped open."
Mark 13:17
How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies!
Mark 13:18
Pray to God that these things will not happen in the winter!
Luke 21:23
How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies! Terrible distress will come upon this land, and God's punishment will fall on this people.
Luke 23:29
For the days are coming when people will say, 'How lucky are the women who never had children, who never bore babies, who never nursed them!'
Luke 23:30
That will be the time when people will say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Hide us!'