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2 Kings 6:28-29
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2 Kings 6:28-29
New American Standard Bible
28 Then the king said to her, “(A)What [a]is on your mind?” And she said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 (B)So we cooked my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, so that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”
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2 Kings 6:28-29
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2 Kings 6:28-29
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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.’ 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 The hands of compassionate women
(A)Boiled their own children;
They became (B)food for them
Due to the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:10
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Lamentations 4:10
New International Version
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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