25 So there was a severe (A)famine in Samaria; and behold, they kept besieging it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a [a]kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord the king!” 27 But he said, “[b]If the Lord does not help you, from where am I to help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 6:25 One kab equals about 2 qt. or 1.9 liters
  2. 2 Kings 6:27 Or No! Let the Lord help you

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