2 Kings 6:28-30

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²⁸ Then the king said to her, “What is your ·trouble [complaint]?”

She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we can eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.’ ²⁹ So we ·boiled [cooked] my son and ate him. Then the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we can eat him.’ But she has hidden him.”

³⁰ When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his clothes [^Ca sign of mourning or distress]. As he walked along the wall, the people looked and saw he had on ·rough cloth [sackcloth; burlap] under his clothes [^Calso a sign of mourning].