2 Kings 6:25

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And a great famine occurred in Samaria. And it was blockaded for a long time, until the head of a donkey was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and one fourth part of a pint of pigeons' dung sold for five silver coins.

Cross References

Genesis 41:55

And being hungry, the people cried out to Pharaoh, asking for provisions. And he said to them: "Go to Joseph. And do whatever he will tell you."

1 Kings 18:2

Therefore, Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. For there was a severe famine in Samaria.

2 Kings 25:3

on the ninth day of the month. And a famine prevailed in the city; neither was there bread for the people of the land.

2 Kings 6:26

And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying, "Save me, my lord the king!"

2 Kings 7:12

And he rose up in the night, and he said to his servants: "I tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are suffering from famine, and therefore they have gone out from the camp, and they lie hidden in the fields, saying: 'When they will have gone out from the city, we will capture them alive, and then we will be able to enter the city.' "

2 Kings 7:4

If we choose to enter the city, we will die from the famine. And if we remain here, we also will die. Therefore, come and let us flee over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare us, we will live. But if they choose to kill us, we will die anyway."

Jeremiah 14:18

"If I go out into the fields: behold, those slain by the sword. And if I enter into the city: behold, those weakened by famine. Likewise, the prophet, too, and the priest, have gone into a land that they did not know.

Jeremiah 32:24

Behold, fortifications were built against the city, so as to capture it. And the city was given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, before the face of the sword, and of famine, and of pestilence. And what you have spoken has occurred, just as you yourself discern.

Jeremiah 52:6

Then, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, a famine gripped the city. And there was no nourishment for the people of the land.

Ezekiel 4:17

So then, when bread and water fail, each one may fall against his brother. And they shall waste away in their iniquities."

Leviticus 26:26

After this, I will have broken the staff of your bread, so that ten women bake bread in one oven, and distribute it by weight. And you shall eat and not be filled.