2Ki 6:25-29, 8:1 | ESV | STEP | 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 of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver .

b[Lev. 26:29; Deut. 28:53, 57; Ezek. 5:10]

2 Kings 6:25-29

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. 26 Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!” 27 And he said, “If the Lord will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?” 28 And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 ^bSo we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”

2 Kings 8:1

The Shunammite’s Land Restored

1 Now Elisha had said to the woman ^cwhose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord ^dhas called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for ^eseven years.”