列王纪下 6:29

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

於是我們把我的兒子煮了，把他吃了。第二日，我對她說：‘把你的兒子交出來，我們好把他吃了。’她卻把她的兒子收藏起來。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 们 就 煮 了 我 的 儿 子 吃 了 。 次 日 我 对 他 说 ： 要 将 你 的 儿 子 取 来 ， 我 们 可 以 吃 。 他 却 将 他 的 儿 子 藏 起 来 了 。

Contextual Overview

²⁴ Later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered his whole army and surrounded and attacked Samaria. ²⁵ There was a shortage of food in Samaria. It was so bad that a donkey's head sold for about two pounds of silver, and half of a pint of dove's dung sold for about two ounces of silver. ²⁶ As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman yelled out to him, "Help me, my master and king!" ²⁷ The king said, "If the Lord doesn't help you, how can I? Can I get help from the threshing floor or from the winepress?" ²⁸ Then the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we can eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.' ²⁹ So we boiled my son and ate him. Then the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we can eat him.' But she had hidden him." ³⁰ When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his clothes in grief. As he walked along the wall, the people looked and saw he had on rough cloth under his clothes to show his sadness. ³¹ He said, "May God punish me terribly if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat isn't cut off from his body today!" ³² The king sent a messenger to Elisha, who was sitting in his house with the elders. But before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to them, "See, this murderer is sending men to cut off my head. When the messenger arrives, shut the door and hold it; don't let him in. The sound of his master's feet is behind him." ³³ Elisha was still talking with the leaders when the messenger arrived. The king said, "This trouble has come from the Lord . Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

next: Heb. other

she hath hid: 1 Kings 3:26, Isaiah 49:15, Isaiah 66:13

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:29 - General Deuteronomy 28:53 - the fruit 2 Kings 6:25 - a great famine Job 39:16 - as Lamentations 2:20 - Shall the women Lamentations 4:10 - in Ezekiel 5:10 - the fathers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So we boiled my son, and did eat him,.... Thus what was predicted, by way of threatening, began to be accomplished, Deuteronomy 28:53,

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophecy alluded to in the marginal references was now fulfilled, probably for the first time. It had a second accomplishment when Jerusalem was besieged by Nebuchadnezzar Lamentations 4:10, and a third in the final siege of the same city by Titus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. So we boiled my son — This is horrible; but for the sake of humanity we must allow that the children died through hunger, and then became food for their starved, desperate parents.

She hath hid her son. — He was already dead, says Jarchi; and she hid him, that she might eat him alone.

This very evil Moses had foretold should come upon them if they forsook God; see Deuteronomy 28:53; Deuteronomy 28:57. The same evil came upon this wretched people when besieged by Nebuchadnezzar; see Ezekiel 5:10. And also when Titus besieged Jerusalem; see Josephus, De Bell. Judaic. lib. vi., cap. 3, and Clarke's notes on "Matthew 24:19".