Cannibal moms

Invaders surrounded the Jewish city of Samaria for so long that the people inside the city ran out of food. Two women agreed to kill and eat their sons. They ate one son one day, but the mother of the other son hide her boy. The next day the enemy army gave up (see 2 Kings 6). Name that second boy Mazel Tov, Hebrew for good luck, as in Lucky. Strange and Mysterious Stuff in the Bible, p. 33.