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2 Kings 6:24-26
New International Version - UK
2 Kings 6:24-26
New International Version - UK
Famine in besieged Samaria
24 Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilised his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria. 25 There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels[a] of silver, and a quarter of a cab[b] of seed pods[c] for five shekels.[d]
26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, ‘Help me, my lord the king!’
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- 2 Kings 6:25 That is, about 920 grams
- 2 Kings 6:25 That is, probably about 100 grams
- 2 Kings 6:25 Or of doves’ dung
- 2 Kings 6:25 That is, about 58 grams
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