2 Kings 6:24-33 - Besieged Samaria Resorts To Cannibalism
24 And it happened after this Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his army and went up and lay siege to Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria. And, behold, they besieged it until an ass's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five silver pieces. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king! 27 And he said, if Jehovah does not help you, from where shall I help you? Out of the barn-floor, or out of the winepress? 28 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she said, This woman said to me, Give your son so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. 29 And we boiled my son and ate him. And I said to her on the other day, Give your son so that we may eat him. And she has hidden her son. 30 And it happened when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And he passed by on the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth inside on his flesh. 31 And he said, May God do so, and more also, to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day. 32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him. And he sent a man from before him. But before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him? 33 While he still talked with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. And he said, Behold, this evil is from Jehovah. Why should I wait for Jehovah any longer?