2 Kings 6:25

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

Cross References

Genesis 41:55

When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do.”

1 Kings 18:2

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

2 Kings 25:3

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

2 Kings 6:26

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

2 Kings 7:12

And the king rose in the night, and said to his servants, “I will tell you what the Syrians have prepared against us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.’ ”

2 Kings 7:4

If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians; if they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.”

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the field, behold, those slain by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land, and have no knowledge.’ ”

Jeremiah 32:24

Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What thou didst speak has come to pass, and behold, thou seest it.

Jeremiah 52:6

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

Ezekiel 4:17

I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver your bread again by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.