John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 6:29

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So we boiled my son, and did eat him, etc.] Thus what was predicted, by way of threatening, began to be accomplished, (<052853>Deuteronomy 28:53), and of which there were other instances of a like kind at the siege of Jerusalem, both by Nebuchadnezzar and Vespasian: and I said unto her on the next day; after her child had been wholly ate up: give thy son, that we may eat him; according to agreement: and she hath hid her son; either to save him alive, or to eat him herself alone.

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