Bible Verses About Cannibalism
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for cannibalism, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,983 votes, led by Jeremiah 19:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Cannibalism
Jeremiah 19:9184 votes
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.
Ezekiel 5:10172 votes
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
Isaiah 9:19-20104 votes
Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
Lamentations 2:20104 votes
Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 4:10100 votes
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Leviticus 26:2988 votes
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
Micah 3:1-474 votes
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
1 Corinthians 10:2874 votes
But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:
Deuteronomy 28:53-5769 votes
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
2 Kings 6:28-2965 votes
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
Ezekiel 36:13-1565 votes
Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
Deuteronomy 18:1062 votes
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Genesis 9:3-658 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Zechariah 12:654 votes
In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
Psalms 106:36-3850 votes
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Zechariah 11:7-948 votes
And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
Deuteronomy 28:5343 votes
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
Deuteronomy 12:30-3135 votes
Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Lamentations 4:10-1135 votes
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Philippians 3:234 votes
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Isaiah 49:2630 votes
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Micah 3:1-1227 votes
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
Luke 22:1926 votes
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Acts 15:2926 votes
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
2 Chronicles 28:1-425 votes
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father:
What does the Bible say about cannibalism?
Readers most often cite Jeremiah 19:9 on the subject of cannibalism. Across 1,983 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ezekiel 5:10, Isaiah 9:19-20, Lamentations 2:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.