2 Kings 6:24-29
The Siege of Samaria—Cannibalism
24 Now it came about after this, that (A)Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria.
25 There was a great (B)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 (a)kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
27 He said, “(b)If the Lord does not help you, from where shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
28 And the king said to her, “(C)What (c)is the matter with you?” And she (d)answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
29 (D)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.”
Footnotes:
a.
2 Kings 6:25: ['I.e. One kab equals approx 2 qts']
b.
2 Kings 6:27: ['Lit ', No, let the Lord help you]
c.
2 Kings 6:28: ['Lit ', to you]
d.
2 Kings 6:28: ['Lit ', said]