2 Kings 6
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2 Kings 6:25-29

25So there was a severe 1famine 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 2kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

26And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord the king!”

27But he said, “3If the Lord does not help you, from where am I to help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

28Then the king said to her, “4What 5is on your mind?” And she said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

296So we cooked my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, so that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”

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Notes

  1. 1. 2 Kings 6:25 Lev 26:26 ↩
  2. 2. 2 Kings 6:25 One kab equals about 2 qt. or 1.9 liters ↩
  3. 3. 2 Kings 6:27 Or No! Let the Lord help you ↩
  4. 4. 2 Kings 6:28 Judg 18:23 ↩
  5. 5. 2 Kings 6:28 Lit to you ↩
  6. 6. 2 Kings 6:29 Lev 26:27-29; Deut 28:52, 53, 57; Lam 4:10 ↩

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