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Jer_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.
Ver. 9. And I will cause them to eat the flesh.] This, as it was threatened, {Lev_26:29 Deu_28:23} so accordingly accomplished. {Lam_2:20; Lam_4:10} Ptolemy Lathurus, king of Egypt, barbarously slew thirty thousand Jews, and forced the rest to feed upon the flesh of those that were slain.