What the Bible says about

Cannibalism

8 references · Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · tap any verse for study tools

“You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.”
Leviticus 26:29 BSB
“Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.”
Deuteronomy 28:53-57 BSB
“Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’”
2 Kings 6:28 BSB
“So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.””
2 Kings 6:29 BSB
“I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’”
Jeremiah 19:9 BSB
“Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?”
Lamentations 2:20 BSB
“The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Lamentations 4:10 BSB
“As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’”
Ezekiel 5:10 BSB
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