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2 Kings 6:25
“There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 6
He prepared great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.
It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!
He said, "If Yahweh doesn't help you, from where could I help you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?
About 2 Kings
The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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