Women Eating Their Children in the Bible

Rather, the Lord is the one who forced them and sentenced them to do so, as you will see in Deuteronomy 28:56-58. I will quote it after the paragraph about the two women who ate their sons, as in 2 Kings 6:26-30, as follows

: 2 Kings 6:26: And while the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Save, my lord, O king!” (27) But he said, “The Lord will not save you. From where shall I save you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?” (28)

Then the king said to her, “What is the matter with you?”

She said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give me your son, that we may eat him today, and then we may eat my son tomorrow.’” (29)

So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, ‘Give me your son, that we may eat him. ’ So she hid her son. (30)

When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his clothes as he passed over the wall. And the people looked, and behold, he had wiped his body from within. As I will now convey to you, the Lord is the one who plans and makes women eat their children, but here is a new matter, which is that the woman will eat her children with the placenta that descends with the fetus from the womb, and this is because of the siege that the Lord will place them in. So read the wonder about that god who depicts the woman as if she is less than animals, eating her children, but with the placenta that descends from the womb after birth. I am sorry for conveying this disgusting speech here, but it is for the sake of imposing on the Christians, and if a writer before me has not conveyed it, it is to spare the reader’s soul from being alarmed. But whoever cannot bear this speech should not read this. The paragraph is from the book. Let him read what follows it directly, as it is not suitable for someone who is deceived by such talk. The paragraph is found in the Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 28, Verses 56-58.