2 Kings 6:25

The Scriptures 1998

And there was a great scarcity of food in Shomeron. And see, they besieged it until a donkey’s head went at eighty pieces of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five pieces of silver.

Cross References

Genesis 41:55

But when all the land of Mitsrayim hungered, and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, Pharaoh said to all the Mitsrites, “Go to Yosĕ

1 Kings 18:2

Thereupon Ě

2 Kings 25:3

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

2 Kings 6:26

And it came to be, as the sovereign of Yisra’ĕ

2 Kings 7:12

So the sovereign rose up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me now inform you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are starving, so 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 enter into the city.’ ”

2 Kings 7:4

“If we shall say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ the scarcity of food is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we shall die. And now, come, let us surrender to the army of the Arameans. If they keep us alive, we live. And if they kill us, we shall die.”

Jeremiah 14:18

‘If I go out to the field, then see those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, then see those sick from scarcity of food! For both prophet and priest go about in a land they do not know.’ ”

Jeremiah 32:24

‘See 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 the scarcity of food and the pestilence. And what You have spoken has come about, and look, You see it!

Jeremiah 52:6

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

Ezekiel 4:17

so that they lack bread and water, and shall be appalled with one another, and be consumed in their crookedness.

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 to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.