25 So there was a great famine in Samaria: for lo, they besieged it until an asses head was at four score pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s [a]dung at five pieces of silver.

26 And as the king of Israel was going upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O King.

27 And he said, Seeing the Lord doth not succor thee, how should I help thee with the [b]barn, or with the wine press?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 6:25 The Hebrews write, that they burned it in the siege for lack of wood.
  2. 2 Kings 6:27 Meaning, any kind of vittle, as corn and wine, etc.

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