You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
29. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons. This scourge is still more severe and terrible (than the others;) Added from Fr. yet we know that the Israelites were smitten with it more than once. This savage act would be incredible; but we gather from it how terrible it is to fall into the hands of God, when men, by adding crime to...
After God had set the blessing before them (the life and good which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient), he here sets the curse before them, the death and evil which would make them as miserable if they were disobedient.
Commenting on Leviticus 26:14-39
And I will destroy your high places,.... Which Jarchi interprets of towers and palaces; but Aben Ezra of the place of sacrifices; for on high places, hills and mountains, they used to build altars, and there offer sacrifices, in imitation of the Heathens; See Gill on Eze 6:13, and cut down your images; called Chammanim, either from Ham, the son of Noah, the first introducer...