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In the Bible but there's a verse that tells you to eat yo...

“in the Bible but there's a verse that tells you to eat your kids if they're disobedient”
False
Confidence: High Checked on July 18, 2026

Summary

The Bible includes metaphorical language about children being eaten by birds as a warning against disobedience and mentions cannibalism only as a dire curse in famine scenarios. It never commands parents to eat their disobedient children; the only prescribed punishment for a rebellious son is capital punishment, not cannibalism. Hence the claim is inaccurate.

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  • Bible Verses about Parents, Disobeying

    'And all the people shall say, 'Amen!' Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocks his father, And scorns obedience to his mother, The ravens of the valley will pick it out, And the young eagles will eat it. Isaiah 3:4-5 " I will give children to be their princes, And babes shall rule over them.

kingjamesbibleonline.org
  • BIBLE VERSES ABOUT DISOBEDIENT CHILDREN

    Ephesians 6:1-3Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.Deuteronomy 21:18-21If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:Proverbs 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.Exodus 21:17And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.Ephesians 5:6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of the

  • BIBLE VERSES ABOUT CANNIBALISM

    And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.Deuteronomy 12:30-31Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and ...

encouragingbibleverses.org
  • 12 Bible Verses About Cannibalism

    Matthew 24:19 – “And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!” 12. 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.” · If you ...

passiontoknowmore.com
thetorah.com
latterdaytimes.com
  • Does God want you to boil and eat your children? Some critics take it there.

    At a glance and taken in isolation, this verse from 2 Kings is just another section where critics of the Bible like to add to their big list of “atrocious things the Bible says,” as an attempt to discredit believers and God. What are we dealing with here? Again, as with the story of Lot in Genesis 19, the mere mention of this is not an endorsement, it is prophecy and history. What is going on here at this point in time has to do with disobedience and war.

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