Deuteronomy 28:53

And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

Cross-reference

Deuteronomy 28:55 continues the same description of parents eating children during siege—directly parallel within the same passage.

Deuteronomy 28:57 continues this curse with a graphic example of a woman eating her afterbirth and children in secret during siege.

Leviticus 26:29 pronounces the identical curse of eating sons and daughters as a covenant warning earlier in the Pentateuch.

2 Kings 6:28 Prophetic fulfillment

2 Kings 6:28 records the historical fulfillment: two women agree to eat their sons during Samaria's siege.

2 Kings 6:29 Prophetic fulfillment

2 Kings 6:29 continues the same account: they boil and eat one son, then the second woman hides hers.

Jeremiah 19:9 repeats this curse as a prophetic judgment against Jerusalem for idolatry.

Lamentations 2:20 Prophetic fulfillment

Lamentations 2:20 laments the fulfillment: women eat their own children during Jerusalem's fall.

Lamentations 4:10 Prophetic fulfillment

Lamentations 4:10 describes pitiful women boiling their own children for food in the destruction.

Ezekiel 5:10 declares that fathers will eat sons and sons fathers as judgment in Jerusalem.

Zechariah 11:9 directly echoes the curse: 'eat every one the flesh of another' — a clear parallel to the cannibalism threat.

Jeremiah 52:6 Historical context

Jeremiah 52:6 records the same famine as 2 Kings 25:3 during Jerusalem's fall, fulfilling the curse's conditions.