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
The king asked: What is your trouble? She answered: The other day a woman suggested that we eat my child. Then we could eat her child the next day.
2 Kings 7:4
If we go into the city we will starve to death. If we stay here we will also die. So let us go to the Syrian camp. The worst they can do is kill us. Maybe they will spare our lives.
2 Kings 25:3
On the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone. There was no food for the people of the land.
1 Kings 18:2
So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. There was no food to be had in Samaria.
Jeremiah 14:13
I said: Alas, O Lord Jehovah, prophets are telling them: 'You will not see wars or famines, for I will give you lasting peace in this place.
Jeremiah 32:24
The siege ramps have reached the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine and the pestilence. You brought all this disaster on them.
Jeremiah 52:6
On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city became so severe that the common people had no food.
An ass's head
Ezekiel 4:13
Jehovah said: This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids when I scatter them to foreign countries.