Isaiah 9:20
devoured .......... ate ........... ate <01504 0398> [And he.]
devoured <01504> [snatch. Heb. cut.]
Leviticus 26:29
This was literally fulfilled at the siege of Jerusalem. Josephus gives a dreadful detail respecting a woman named Mary, who, in the extremity of the famine, during the seige, killed her sucking child, roasted, and had eaten part of it, when discovered by the soldiers!
Deuteronomy 28:53-57
offspring <06529> [the fruit.]
offspring <0990> [body. Heb. belly.]
<05869> [his eye.]
wife .... remaining <0802 03499> [and toward.]
The Roman armies at length besieged, sacked, and utterly desolated Jerusalem: and during this seige, the famine was so extreme, that even rich and delicate persons, both men and women, ate their own children, and concealed the horrible repast, lest others should tear it from them! "Women snatched the food out of the very mouths of their husbands, and sons of their fathers, and (what is most miserable) mothers of their infants." "In every house, if there appeared any semblance of food, a battle ensued, and the dearest friends and relations fought with one another; snatching away the miserable provisions of life." "A woman distinguished by birth and wealth, after she had been plundered by the tyrants (or soldiers) of all her possessions, boiling her own sucking child, ate half of him, and concealing the other half, reserved it for another time!"
children <01121> [his children.]
[in the seige.]
delicate <06028> [and delicate.]
<05869 03415> [her eye shall be evil.]
afterbirth <07988> [young one. Heb. after-birth. cometh out.]
eat <0398> [for she shall.]
Deuteronomy 28:2
come ..... abundance <0935 05381> [come on thee.]
Deuteronomy 6:25
Deuteronomy 18:1
allotment <02506> [shall have.]
eat <0398> [they shall.]
Jeremiah 19:9
eat ... flesh .......... flesh <0398 01320> [eat the.]
Lamentations 4:9-10
those .......... food <01992 08570> [for.]
waste away <02100> [pine away. Heb. flow out.]
hands <03027> [hands.]
tenderhearted <07362> [pitiful.]
destroyed <07667> [in.]
Ezekiel 4:16
remove <07665> [I will.]
eat <0398> [eat.]
The prophet was allowed each day only twenty shekels weight, or about ten ounces, of the coarse food he had prepared, and the sixth part of a hin, scarcely a pint and a half, of water; all of which was intended to shew that they should be obliged to eat the meanest and coarsest food, and that by weight, and their water by measure.
