Treasury of Scripture
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
a great famine
2 Kings 6:28,29 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him to day...
2 Kings 7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also...
2 Kings 25:3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
1 Kings 18:2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
Jeremiah 14:13-15,18 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say to them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine...
Jeremiah 32:24 Behold the mounts, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it...
Jeremiah 52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city...
an ass's head If the {pieces} of silver were {dracms}, the whole would amount
2l.
9s.; which was a great price for so {mean} a part of this {unclean} animal.
Ezekiel 4:13-16 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them...
dove's dung This probably denotes, as Bochart, Scheuchzer, and others suppose, a kind of {pulse}, or {vetches}, which the Arabs still call {pigeon's dung}. `They never,' says Dr. Sahw, `constitute a dish by themselves, but are strewed singly as a garnish over {cuscasowe, pillowe}, and other dishes. They are besides in the greatest repute after they are parched in pans and ovens; then assuming the name {leb-lebby;} ' and he thinks they were so called from being pointed at one end, and acquiring an ash colour in parching.
Strong's Concordance
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was [sold] for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver. Topical Bible
Ass Ass's Behold Besieged Cab Donkey's Doves Dove's Dovesdung Droppings Dung Eighty Famine Forth Fourscore Fourth Kab Kept Lasted Laying Measure Pieces Pods Price Quarter Samaria Sama'ria Seed Shekels Short Shut Siege Silver Silverlings Silver-pieces Sold Till WorthResources
2 Kings Chapter 6 Verse 25
Alphabetical: a and behold besieged cab city donkey's dove's dung eighty famine five for fourth great head in it kab lasted long of pods quarter Samaria seed shekels siege silver so sold that the There they until was
OT History: 2 Kings 6:25 There was a great famine in Samaria: (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg)