Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 6:29
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.
29. she hath hid her son ] So hath famine changed the nature of those whom Jeremiah calls ‘the pitiful women’. The king cannot answer such an appeal, though starvation have made the mother feel that it is a just one.
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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 Lam 4:10, and a third in the final siege of the same city by Titus.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ 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 De 28:53; De 28:57. The same evil came upon this wretched people when besieged by Nebuchadnezzar; see Eze 5:10. And also when Titus besieged Jerusalem; see Josephus, De Bell. Judaic. lib. vi., cap. 3, and Clarke’s notes on “Mt 24:19“.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
We boiled my son, and did eat him; a dreadful judgment, threatened to them in case of their apostacy, Deu 28:56,57, in which they were now deeply plunged. Compare Eze 5:10.
She hath hid her son; 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.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
29. we boiled my son, and did eathim(See on De 28:53).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
So we boiled my son, and did eat him,…. Thus what was predicted, by way of threatening, began to be accomplished, De 28:53,
[See comments on De 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(29) she hath hid her son.Perhaps to save him. (Comp. 1Ki. 3:26.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
29. We boiled my son Probably after the child had himself died from hunger. This statement is another evidence of the awful extremity and starvation to which the Samaritans were driven by this siege of Ben-hadad.
This strife between these two mothers also shows how, in the bitterest hour of human misery, the lower passions will revel uncontrolled. But these were the very woes which Moses had foretold would come in case of disobedience. See Deu 28:53.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ki 6:29. So we boiled my son, &c. This shocking anecdote is a terrible effect of the divine vengeance, which Moses had long before told the Israelites would fall upon them, if they rebelled against God. The same evil happened to them at two other times besides this; at the siege of Jerusalem, under Nebuchadnezzar; see Ezek. ch. 2Ki 5:10 and at that under Titus; see Joseph. Bell. Jud. lib. vii. c. 8.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
2Ki 6:29 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.
Ver. 29. So we boiled my son, and did eat him. ] Male suada fames, made her require of her child that life, which not long before she had given it; laying him not in her bosom, but in her bowels. This was forethreatened. Lev 26:29
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
we boiled. Compare Deu 28:53.
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she hath hid: 1Ki 3:26, Isa 49:15, Isa 66:13
Reciprocal: Lev 26:29 – General Deu 28:53 – the fruit 2Ki 6:25 – a great famine Job 39:16 – as Lam 2:20 – Shall the women Lam 4:10 – in Eze 5:10 – the fathers