2 Kings 6:25

New English Translation

Samaria’s food supply ran out. They laid siege to it so long that a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver and a quarter of a kab of dove’s droppings for five shekels of silver.

Cross References

Genesis 41:55

When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

2 Kings 25:3

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

2 Kings 6:26

While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him, “Help us, my master, O king!”

2 Kings 7:12

The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

2 Kings 7:4

If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, we’ll live; if they kill us – well, we were going to die anyway.”

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the countryside, I see those who have been killed in battle. If I go into the city, I see those who are sick because of starvation. For both prophet and priest go about their own business in the land without having any real understanding.’”

Jeremiah 32:24

Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city in order to capture it. War, starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians who are attacking it. Lord, you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place.

Jeremiah 52:6

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

Ezekiel 4:17

because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.