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The Siege of Samaria

24 Some time later King Benhadad of Syria led his entire army against Israel and laid siege to the city of Samaria. 25 As a result of the siege the food shortage in the city was so severe that a donkey's head cost eighty pieces of silver, and half a pound of dove's dung[a] cost five pieces of silver.

26 The king of Israel was walking by on the city wall when a woman cried out, “Help me, Your Majesty!”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 6:25 This may be a popular term for a vegetable such as wild onions.

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