Ok, so basiclaly, you're saying that the KING was a cannibal, which we alredy knew. But what you're ignoring is that you're saying that the King was THAT hard up for a meal that he boiled his own son?

I highly doubt it.
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People did crazy shit back then, just like when they say animals eat their young sometimes....

and i don't know if its true or not but i once heard of some girl who's husband payed no attention to her he payed all of his attention towards the baby and she killed the baby and fed it to him with out him knowing i doubt that shit.....but still people do some crazy shit...

but your thing was why does the bible condone cannibalism....and it doesn't.....never did it say it was ok to eat people...and that king died for what he did anyways...and the people got food so they didn't have to be eating eachother...and like LF said it might have been a way to punish themselves i don't know the whole story of that group of people...