Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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 cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
A great famine
An ass's head
Bible References
A great famine
2 Kings 6:28
Then the king asked her, “What’s the matter?”
She said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.’
She said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.’
2 Kings 7:4
If we say, ‘Let’s go into the city,’ we will die there because the famine is in the city, but if we sit here, we will also die. So now, come on. Let’s go to the Arameans’ camp. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”
2 Kings 25:3
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.
1 Kings 18:2
So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.
The famine was severe in Samaria.
The famine was severe in Samaria.
Jeremiah 14:13
And I replied, “Oh no, Lord God! The prophets are telling them, ‘You won’t see sword or suffer famine. I will certainly give you true peace in this place.’”
Jeremiah 32:24
Look! Siege ramps have come against the city to capture it, and the city, as a result of the sword, famine, and plague, has been handed over to the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened. Look, You can see it!
Jeremiah 52:6
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.
An ass's head
Ezekiel 4:13
The Lord said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their bread—ceremonially unclean—among the nations where I will banish them.”