Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 6:29
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2 Kings6:29
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 .
A dreadful Judgment threatned to them in case of their Apostacy, Deut. 28. 56, 57. in which they were now deeply plunged. Compare Ezek. 5. 10.
Either, that she might eat him alone; or rather, that she might save him from Death, her Bowels yearning towards him, and her hunger being in great measure satisfied.
Marginal references: Deut. 28. 53, 57.; Heb. [illegible: 1 word] ▪
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