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Aram’s Siege of Samaria

24 Now it happened afterwards, that (A)Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his military camp and went up and besieged Samaria. 25 Now there was a great (B)famine in Samaria. And behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for [a]eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a [b]kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 6:25 Approx. 2 lb. or 0.8 kg, a shekel was approx. 0.4 oz. or 11 gm
  2. 2 Kings 6:25 A kab was approx. 2 qt. or 1.9 l

Teth

Better are those (A)pierced through with the sword
Than those pierced through with hunger;
For their life (B)flows away, being stricken
For lack of the produce of [a]the field.

Yodh

10 The hands of compassionate women
(C)Boiled their own children;
They became (D)food for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:9 Lit my fields