2 Kings 6:25

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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

Jeremiah 52:6

An ass's head

Ezekiel 4:13

Bible References

A great famine

The king said to her, "{What is the problem}?" Then the woman said, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son, and let us eat him today, then tomorrow we will eat my son.'

If we say, 'Let us go [into] the city,' the famine [is] in the city, and we shall die there; but if we sit here, we shall die. So then, come, let us fall into the camp of [the] Arameans. If they let us live, we shall live; but if they kill us, then we shall die."

In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine [was] severe in Samaria.

Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, look, the prophets [are] saying to them, 'You will not see [the] sword, and famine will not be yours, but reliable peace I will give to you in this place.'"

Look, the siege ramps have come up [to] the city to capture it, and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword, the famine, and the plague, and what you spoke happened, and look, you [are] seeing [it].

In the fourth month, on [the] ninth [day] of the month, the famine in the city became severe and there was no food for the people of the land.

An ass's head

And Yahweh said, "Thus shall the {Israelites} eat their unclean food among the nations {where I will scatter them}."