This was literally fulfilled at the siege of Jerusalem. Josephus gives a dreadful detail respecting a woman named Mary, who, in the extremity of the famine, during the seige, killed her sucking child, roasted, and had eaten part of it, when discovered by the soldiers!
Deuteronomy 28:53-
57 And thou shalt eat
the fruit of thine own
body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: ... And toward her
young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear:
for she shall eat them for want of all [
things] secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
2 Kings 6:28-
29 And the king said unto her,
What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me,
Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. ... So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the
next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
Jeremiah 19:9 And I will cause them to
eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Lamentations 2:20 Behold, O LORD, and
consider to whom thou hast done this.
Shall the women eat their fruit, [
and] children
of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 4:10 The
hands of the
pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat
in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore
the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and
the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
Matthew 24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Luke 23:29 For, behold,
the days are coming, in the which they shall say,
Blessed [
are] the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
