2 Kings 6:25

New King James Version

And there was a great famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.

Cross References

Genesis 41:55

So when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Then Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, do.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab; and there was a severe famine in Samaria.

2 Kings 25:3

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

2 Kings 6:26

Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

2 Kings 7:12

So the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “Let me now tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.’ ”

2 Kings 7:4

If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die.”

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out to the field, Then behold, those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, Then behold, those sick from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest go about in a land they do not know.’ ”

Jeremiah 32:24

‘Look, the siege mounds! They have come to the city to take it; and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword and famine and pestilence. What You have spoken has happened; there You see it!

Jeremiah 52:6

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

Ezekiel 4:17

that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.

Leviticus 26:26

When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.