2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
Cross-reference
2 Kings 6:25 sets the scene of extreme famine in Samaria, making the cannibalism in verse 29 understandable — cause and effect.
Isaiah 49:15 asks if a mother can forget her nursing child — a stark contrast to the mother who hides her son to avoid eating him.
Leviticus 26:29 pronounces the curse of eating one's own children for covenant breaking — here that curse becomes grim reality during Samaria's siege.
Deuteronomy 28:53 also warns of cannibalism as a covenant curse — the same horror now realized in Samaria.
Lamentations 2:20 laments the same horror of mothers eating their children during Jerusalem's fall, echoing the tragedy in Samaria.
Lamentations 4:10 explicitly describes women boiling their own children — a direct parallel to the account here.
1 Kings 3:26 shows a mother pleading to save her son — contrasting maternal protection with the other mother who boils her child.
Ezekiel 5:10 prophesies fathers eating sons as judgment — a similar curse but for a different historical situation.