Then she saddled an ass and said to the lad, "Lead away, and make me not cease riding, until I bid thee."

and came to her husband and said, "Send me one of the young men and an ass that I may run to the man of God."

And there arose great dearth in Samaria: for they had besieged it, until an ass's head was worth four score sicles of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of doves' dung worth five sicles.