John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son, and did eat him ,.... Thus what was predicted, by way of threatening, began to be accomplished, Deuteronomy 28:53 ; see Gill on Deuteronomy 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,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 6:24-33
This last paragraph of this chapter should, of right, have been the first of the next chapter, for it begins a new story, which is there continued and concluded. Here is, I. The siege which the king of Syria laid to Samaria and the great distress which the city was reduced to thereby. The Syrians had soon forgotten the kindnesses they had lately received in Samaria, and very ungratefully, for aught that appears without any provocation, sought the destruction of it, 2 Kgs. 6:24. There are base... read more