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2 Kings 6:25

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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.

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2 Kings 6:25 in other translations

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

2 Kings 6:25 · American Standard Version

2 Kings 6:25 in context

  1. 23He prepared a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.
  2. 24After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
  3. 25There 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.
  4. 26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
  5. 27He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”