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and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

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A Horrifyingly Fulfilled Prophecy

Commentators highlight this as a shockingly specific prophecy fulfilled centuries later. The historian Josephus recorded that during the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., a woman, driven by starvation, killed and ate her own child. Scholars note how this event perfectly matches the details of Moses's warning—a desperate act done in secret during a siege—testifying to the Bible's divine foresight.

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Deuteronomy

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Deuteronomy 28:15–68

18th Century

Theologian

The curses correspond in form and number (Deuteronomy 28:15–19) to the blessings (Deuteronomy 28:3–6), and the special ways…

John Gill

John Gill

On Deuteronomy 28:57

17th Century

Pastor

And toward her young one that comes out from between her
feet
Or her secundine, "her …

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Deuteronomy 28:45–68

17th Century

Minister

If God inflicts vengeance, what miseries His curse can bring upon humankind, even in this present world! Yet these are but the beginning of sorrows…