2 Kings 6:25
So there was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
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24Later after this Ben Hadad king of Aram gathered all his army and attacked Samaria and besieged it.
Cross References
Genesis 41:55When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people loudly called on Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do what he says.”
1 Kings 18:2Elijah went to show himself to Ahab; now the famine was severe in Samaria.
2 Kings 7:4If we say that we should go into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. But if we still sit here, we will still die. Now then, come, let us go to the army of the Arameans. If they keep us alive, we will live, and if they kill us, we will only die.”
2 Kings 25:3On the ninth day of the fourth month of that year, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the field, there are the ones who were killed by the sword! 1 If I come to the city, there are the diseases that are caused by famine. 1 Both the prophet and the priest wander about the land, and they do not know.'” 1
Jeremiah 52:6By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 6:25-33
The Siege of Samaria. ( b. c. 891.) 24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the Lord do not… Read the whole commentary →