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25 The shortages caused by the blockade of Samaria became so severe that a donkey’s head sold for two pounds of silver and a half-pint of dove[a] manure for two ounces of silver.

26 As the king of Israel was walking on the city wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, Your Majesty!”

27 He answered, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, how can I help you? I can’t give you something from the threshing floor[b] or the winepress.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 6:25 Or “pigeon.”
  2. 2 Kings 6:27 A threshing floor is an outdoor area where grain is separated from its husks.

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