2 Kings 6:25 “So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city…”

2 Kings 6:25

So 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, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

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 kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

Geneva Bible 1599

So there was a great famine in Samaria: for loe, they besieged it vntill an asses head was at foure score pieces of siluer, and the fourth part of a kab of doues doung at fiue pieces of siluer.

Darby Translation

And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung five silver-pieces.

Young's Literal Translation

and there is a great famine in Samaria, and lo, they are laying siege to it, till the head of an ass is at eighty silverlings, and a forth of the cab of dovesdung at five silverlings.

Bible in Basic English

And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

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Cross references

“a great famine”

Jeremiah 14:13–15 Jeremiah 14:18 Jeremiah 52:6 Jeremiah 32:24 2 Kings 7:4 2 Kings 25:3

Jeremiah 14:13–15 · BSB

“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”

Jeremiah 14:18 · BSB

If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

Jeremiah 52:6 · BSB

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

Jeremiah 32:24 · BSB

See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happen…

2 Kings 7:4 · BSB

If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if th…

2 Kings 25:3 · BSB

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

“an ass's head”

Ezekiel 4:13–16

Ezekiel 4:13–16 · BSB

Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

Also

Leviticus 26:26

Leviticus 26:26 · BSB

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

Read 2 Kings 6