2 Kings 6:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So there was a severe famine  in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey’s head sold for 880 grams  of silver, and a cup  of dove’s dung  sold for 55 grams  of silver.

Cross References

Jeremiah 52:6

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

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out to the field, look #– #those slain by the sword! If I enter the city, look #– #those ill  from famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.

Jeremiah 32:24

Look! Siege ramps  have come against the city to capture it, and the city, as a result of the sword, famine, and plague, has been handed over to the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you have spoken has happened. Look, you can see it!

2 Kings 25:3

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

2 Kings 7:4

If we say, “Let’s go into the city,” we will die there because the famine is in the city, but if we sit here, we will also die. So now, come on. Let’s surrender to the Arameans’ camp.  If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.’

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

Leviticus 26:26

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

2 Kings 6:26

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, ‘My lord the king, help! ’

2 Kings 7:12

So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, ‘Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving,  so they have left the camp to hide in the open country, thinking, “When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and go into the city.” ’

Genesis 41:55

When the whole land of Egypt was stricken with famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh told all Egypt, ‘Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.’

Ezekiel 4:17

for lack of bread and water. Everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.