29So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him;' and she has hidden her son.|


In Context

26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, |Help, my lord, O king!|

27 He said, |If Yahweh doesn't help you, from where could I help you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?|

28 The king said to her, |What ails you?| She answered, |This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

29 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him;' and she has hidden her son.|

30 It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.

31 Then he said, |God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day.|

2 Kings 6:29 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:29So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give up your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden him."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:29So 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:29So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day: Give thy son that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:29So 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:29And we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she has hidden her son.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:29So 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:29So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:29and we boil my son and eat him, and I say unto her on the next day, Give thy son, and we eat him; and she hideth her son.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:29So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him: and she has hid her son.