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25 There was a great famine in Samaria, and they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels[a] of silver, and one-fourth of a kab[b] of dove droppings for five shekels[c] of silver.

26 As the king of Israel was walking across the city wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help, my lord king.”

27 He said, “If the Lord will not help you, how can I help you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 6:25 About 2 pounds, or 920 grams.
  2. 2 Kings 6:25 Likely about ¼ pound, or 100 grams.
  3. 2 Kings 6:25 About 2 ounces, or 58 grams.