2Ki 6:25-29 | NASB2020 | STEP | So there was a severe famine in Samaria ; and behold , they kept besieging it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver , and a fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver .

f Lev 26:27-29; Deut 28:52, 53, 57; Lam 4:10

2 Kings 6:25-29

25 So there was a severe ^afamine in Samaria; and behold, they kept besieging it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a ^{▼▼One kab equals about 2 qt. or 1.9 liters}kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord the king!” 27 But he said, “ ^{▼▼Or No! Let the Lord help you}If the Lord does not help you, from where am I to help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?” 28 Then the king said to her, “ ^dWhat ^{▼▼Lit to you}is on your mind?” And she said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 ^fSo we cooked my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, so that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”