Could someone tell me what the unholy heck is going on here?

Question

2 Kings 6:29 (King James Version)


"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."

Answer 1

you have been reading the Gospel according to Jeffrey Dahmer again haven't you???

Answer 2

Hmm it seems the woman came to the king for advice because her neighbor said if she would allow her to eat her son on one day, they'd eat the neighbor's son the next, but the woman didn't let her.

As far as my understanding goes, this was during a famine when a lot of people were dying of starvation, and it's believed that the children died from hunger and became food for their starved, desperate parents.

I'd suggest reading the entire chapter and book, not just the verse, it explains quite a bit.

But yes, it's still rather sick.

Answer 3

Have you read the whole chapter? There's faminine in that city and they are starving so bad that in order to survive they would eat anything and anybody to keep from dying. When reading the bible, you must read the whole or more than the whole chapter to understand what you're reading. Reading just a scripture from the Bible will confuse the heck out of many people especially when you really don't read the bible. There is more to that scripture starting from 2 Kings 6:24 and so on. Read it.

Answer 4

You gotta look at it this way. Figure's of speech. What you read doesn't necessarily mean exactly what it says. The English language, especially in America uses figure's of speech regularly. Like for instance "I'm gonna make you eat this knuckle sandwich" ! We all know that what that means is, that the person is angry, and is about ready to hit someone with their fist. Well, lets go 2000 years in the future. Do you think the people might think that we ate knuckles of someones hands?? They had figure's of speech even back then, in the old testament. They spoke them during Jesus's time, and we speak them today . Someone who doe's not know this, can pick up the Bible and read everything literally. Not all that you read is literal. In 2000 years they'll sure be scratching their heads wondering why we shove everything up our a**. I rather doubt that day will come in 2000 years.

Answer 5

Yikes!
You're needing reading the complete chapter. The FAMINE was ssssoooo devastateing.

Hypotheticly , i think they're saying IF i cook ...... . IF YOU cook a relative. = What's next ? Us cooking our children? A King who has the ability in reverseing the famine's hearing those hypothetical . SYNARIIO.

Famine in Besieged Samaria
. 25 There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey's head sold for eighty shekels [a] of silver, and a quarter of a cab [b] of seed pods [c] for five shekels. [d]

Answer 6

When Israel was formed into a nation, God gave warnings of the dire consequences of disobedience.
Some consequences are recorded at Leviticus 26:29 and Deutoronomy 28:53.
Sure enough, Israel disobeyed (knowingly) and they got themselves into all kinds of trouble.
Not that God caused the trouble ....He simply took away His protection and oversight, left them to their own doing.
AND ....that's what they did.
As a side point:
At this time the 10 breakaway tribes referred to themselves as 'Israel' even though they were the most rebellious.
The 2 remaining tribes (Judah & Benjamin) were the ones that had God's oversight.

Answer 7

Yeah the people were in the middle of a famine. They resorted to some pretty shameful things, first eating donkey heads and now this.
This is NOT God endorsing cannibalism. You should read the whole chapter.

-B

Answer 8

Famine and soaring food prices led the Israelites to do the unthinkable - cannabilism.

The initial sin of disobedience (after Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt into the wilderness) pushed the Israelites deeper into sin and more separated from God.

Answer 9

It is a prophecy that was fullfilled. A prophet (I can't recall which one) warned about famine so bad that people would resort to cannibalism. God sent the famine because of the rampant idolatry that was occuring. What happened was a woman convinced another woman to do this because of the famine. When she found out she had been tricked she went to the king (or other authority) for justice.

Answer 10

Just another case of "god" punishing a whole group of people and the truely innocent paying the price. Many christians will say that this is not "god" condoning cannabilism but I disagree. If "god" is all knowing, he will know what will happen when he chooses to cause a famine. He would have known that the people would resort to cannabilism. Since he did it anyway, he must have been fine with the innocent children being cooked and eaten.

Yea, not that is a "god" worthy of worship! NOT!

Answer 11

During a severe famine Israel had committed horendous deeds against their own children. During this time, don't forget, Israel had lost the faith and departed from a covenant trust with God, resulting in casting God aside, His Word, and therefore losing family affection and love.