Starvation would become so severe in the land that when a child died of hunger, the family might eat the child’s body. This was a practice seen among pagan nations (Deuteronomy 28:53–57; see 2 Kings 6:24–31; Lamentations 2:20; compare 2 Kings 3:27).
Starvation would become so severe in the land that when a child died of hunger, the family might eat the child’s body. This was a practice seen among pagan nations (Deuteronomy 28:53–57; see 2 Kings 6:24–31; Lamentations 2:20; compare 2 Kings 3:27).