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29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I told her: ‘Give your son that we may eat him’—but she hid her son.”

30 Now it came to pass when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes—as he was passing by on the wall, the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath upon his flesh. 31 Then he said, “May God do so to me and even more, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today.”

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