2 Kings 6:29-31

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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]. ³¹ He said, “May God ·punish me terribly [deal severely with me, and worse; ^Ldo to me, and even more] if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat ·isn’t cut off from his body [^Lremains on his shoulders] today [^Cthe king blames Elisha for the situation]!”