Jeremiah 19:9 Cross References

Jeremiah 19:9

9: I will see to it that your enemies lay siege to the city until all the food is gone. Then those trapped inside will have to eat their own sons and daughters and friends. They will be driven to utter despair.'

Leviticus 26:29

  1. You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

Lamentations 4:10

  1. Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children and eaten them in order to survive the siege.

Isaiah 9:20

  1. They fight against their own neighbors to steal food, but they will still be hungry. In the end they will even eat their own children.

Ezekiel 5:10

  1. Parents will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. And I will punish you by scattering the few who survive to the far reaches of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:53

  1. The siege will be so severe that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you.
  2. The most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassion for his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children.
  3. He will refuse to give them a share of the flesh he is devouring--the flesh of one of his own children--because he has nothing else to eat during the siege that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.
  4. The most tender and delicate woman among you--so delicate she would not so much as touch her feet to the ground--will be cruel to the husband she loves and to her own son or daughter.
  5. She will hide from them the afterbirth and the new baby she has borne, so that she herself can secretly eat them. She will have nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.

Lamentations 2:20

  1. "O LORD, think about this!" Jerusalem cries. "You are doing this to your own people! Should mothers eat their little children, those they once bounced on their knees? Should priests and prophets die within the Lord's Temple?

2 Kings 6:26

  1. One day as the king of Israel was walking along the wall of the city, a woman called to him, "Please help me, my lord the king!"
  2. "If the LORD doesn't help you, what can I do?" he retorted. "I have neither food nor wine to give you."
  3. But then the king asked, "What is the matter?" She replied, "This woman proposed that we eat my son one day and her son the next.
  4. So we cooked my son and ate him. Then the next day I said, `Kill your son so we can eat him,' but she had hidden him."
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