2 Kings 6:25

New International Version

There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels.

Cross References

Jeremiah 52:6

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go into the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I go into the city, I see the ravages of famine. Both prophet and priest have gone to a land they know not.’ ”

Jeremiah 32:24

“See how the siege ramps are built up to take the city. Because of the sword, famine and plague, the city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians who are attacking it. What you said has happened, as you now see.

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

2 Kings 7:4

If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria,

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

2 Kings 6:26

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

2 Kings 7:12

The king got up in the night and said to his officers, “I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide in the countryside, thinking, ‘They will surely come out, and then we will take them alive and get into the city.’ ”

Genesis 41:55

When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.”

Ezekiel 4:17

for food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of their sin.