Charles Ellicott Commentary Leviticus 26:29

"And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." — Leviticus 26:29 (ASV)

And you shall eat the flesh of your sons. —The harrowing scene described here is also depicted in Deuteronomy 28:53-57.

This prediction actually came to pass at the siege of Samaria by the Syrians (2 Kings 6:28–29), and at the siege of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. Jeremiah thus bewails this latter event: “the hands of pitiful women have sodden their own children; they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people” (Lamentations 4:10; compare also Jeremiah 19:9, Ezekiel 5:10, Zechariah 11:9, and other passages).

This horror also occurred during the siege of Jerusalem by Titus. For instance, a woman named Mary killed her infant child and boiled it during the height of the famine, and after she had eaten part of it, the soldiers found the remainder in her house.