2 Kings 6:25
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2 Kings 6:25
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There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty {shekels} of silver, and a fourth of a (I.e. One kab equals approx 2 qts) kab of dove's dung for five {shekels} of silver.
2 Kings 6:26
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As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
2 Kings 6:27
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He said, "If the LORD does not help you, from where shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?"
2 Kings 6:28
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And the king said to her, "What is the matter with you?" And she answered, "This woman said to me, `Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
2 Kings 6:29
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~"So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, `Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."
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