You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. The most horrifying curse in the entire Levitical system: cannibalism of one's own children. The covenant community that rejected the covenant protecting its children (from child sacrifice, from exploitation) faces the ultimate breakdown of family and social bonds in the siege conditions of exile. Lamentations 2:20 and 4:10 record this horror's actual occurrence in the siege of Jerusalem — the covenant curse of Leviticus 26:29 is the historical reality that the prophets mourn.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

Publish a note on this verse