2Ki 6:24-25 | ESV | STEP | Afterward Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and besieged Samaria .

2 Kings 6:24-25

Ben-hadad’s Siege of Samaria

24 Afterward ^aBen-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab ^{▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams; a kab was about 1 quart or 1 liter} of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.