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- As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, "Help me, my lord the king!"
- The king replied, "If the LORD does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?"
- Then he asked her, "What's the matter?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son.'
- So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give up your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden him."
- When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and there, underneath, he had sackcloth on his body.
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