SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:29
Y comeréis la carne de vuestros hijos, y comeréis la carne de vuestras hijas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:29
Verse 29. Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, &c.] This was literally fulfilled at the siege of Jerusalem. Josephus, WARS of the Jews, book vii., chap. ii., gives us a particular instance in dreadful detail of a woman named Mary, who, in the extremity of the famine during the siege, killed her sucking child, roasted, and had eaten part of it when discovered by the soldiers! See this threatened, Jer. xix. 9.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 29. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons , etc.] Which was fulfilled at the siege of Samaria, in the times of Joram, ( 2 Kings 6:29); and at the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, ( Lamentations 4:10); and though there is no instance of it at that time in the sacred records, the Jews tells us of one Doeg ben Joseph, who died and left a little one with his mother, who was very fond of him; but at this siege slew him with her own hands, and ate him, with respect to which they suppose Jeremiah makes the lamentation, ( Lamentations 2:2); and of this also there was an instance at the last siege of Jerusalem, by Titus, when a woman, named Mary, of a considerable family, boiled her son, and ate part of him, and the rest was found in her house when the seditious party broke in upon her, as Josephus relates: and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat ; of which, though no instances are given, it is as reasonable to suppose it was done as the former. Some of the Jewish writers think, that in this prediction is included, that children should eat their parents, as well as parents their children, as in ( Ezekiel 5:10).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-39 - After God has set the blessing before them which would make them happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse befor them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they wer disobedient. Two things would bring ruin. 1. A contempt of God' commandments. They that reject the precept, will come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they wil not learn obedience by the things they suffer, God himself would be against them; and this is the root and cause of all their misery. An also, The whole creation would be at war with them. All God's sor judgments would be sent against them. The threatenings here are very particular, they were prophecies, and He that foresaw all their rebellions, knew they would prove so. TEMPORAL judgments ar threatened. Those who will not be parted from their sins by the commands of God, shall be parted from them by judgments. Those wedde to their lusts, will have enough of them. SPIRITUAL judgments ar threatened, which should seize the mind. They should find no acceptanc with God. A guilty conscience would be their continual terror. It is righteous with God to leave those to despair of pardon, who presume to sin; and it is owing to free grace, if we are not left to pine away is the iniquity we were born in, and have lived in.
Original Hebrew
ואכלתם 398 בשׂר 1320 בניכם 1121 ובשׂר 1320 בנתיכם 1323 תאכלו׃ 398
