We boiled my son, and did eat him; a dreadful judgment, threatened to them in case of their apostacy, Deu_28:56,57, in which they were now deeply plunged. Compare Eze_5:10.
She hath hid her son; either that she might eat him alone; or rather, that she might save him from death; her bowels yearning towards him, and her hunger being in great measure satisfied.