2 Kings 6:28

What aileth thee? The woman's cry is not stopped by his answer. She has more to speak about than to ask him for food.

This woman said unto me It would appear as if she had brought her neighbour along with her, that what she deemed justice might be done her at once. That they should be brought to such hardships and horrors as are here described had been foretold to Israel in early times (Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:53-57); cf. also Lament. 2 Kings 2:20; 2 Kings 4:10; Ezekiel 5:10. Josephus relates the like dreadful sufferings in the siege of Jerusalem by Titus (B. J.6:3. 4).

my son According to the history the children were both sons. Josephus represents only one of them as a boy.