Cannibalism among God’s People

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If God’s people break the covenant, they will eventually spiral downward to cannibalism. They will eat their own children. This is an outcome of their own sin.

 

 

BIBLE VERSES

 

Leviticus 26:29. You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

Deuteronomy 28:53. You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.

Deuteronomy 28:54. The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

2 Kings 6:28. The king said to her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

2 Kings 6:29. So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”

Jeremiah 19:9. I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives. (NIV translation)

Lamentations 2:20. “Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 4:10. The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Ezekiel 5:10. Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.

Baruch 2:3. That we should eat every man the flesh of his own son, and every man the flesh of his own daughter.

 

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