6:29 eat him. This unspeakable deed of cannibalistic infanticide illustrates the depths of depravity to which human beings can descend when they have more concern for their own needs than concern for the Lord. It was actually a fulfillment of God’s prophetic warning: “The tender and delicate woman among you,...her eye shall be evil toward...her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them...in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates” (Deuteronomy 28:56, 57).