2 Kings 6
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2 Kings 6:24-25

24Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.

25So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver,1 and a quarter cab of dove’s dung2 sold for five shekels of silver.3

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  1. 1. 2 Kings 6:25 80 shekels is approximately 2 pounds or 907.2 grams of silver. ↩
  2. 2. 2 Kings 6:25 Or a quarter cab of seed pods; that is, approximately 0.28 dry quarts or 0.31 liters ↩
  3. 3. 2 Kings 6:25 5 shekels is approximately 2 ounces or 57 grams of silver. ↩

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