George Leo Haydock
Catholic
1774–1849
“Eat him. Strange cruelty! foretold [in] Deuteronomy xxviii. 53, and again verified at Jerusalem, Ezechiel v. 10.”
The interpretation timeline
2Kgs 6:29
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
1 Catholic · 1 Reformed
2Kgs 6:29 · Douay-Rheims
“So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day: Give thy son that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.”
Post-Reformation
c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1871
A.D.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Reformed
1871
“we boiled my son, and did eat him--(See on Deu 28:53).”
Modern · 1953 →
The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.