Syria Besieges Samaria in Famine

24 And it happened after this that (A)Ben-Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

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25 And there was a great (A)famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a [a]kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 6:25 Approximately 1 pint

Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem

For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts,
(A)Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah
(B)The[a] stock and the store,
The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water;

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:1 Every support

In the (A)eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the [a]city was penetrated.

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  1. Jeremiah 39:2 city wall was breached

Those slain by the sword are better off
Than those who die of hunger;
For these (A)pine away,
Stricken for lack of the fruits of the (B)field.

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10 The hands of the (A)compassionate women
Have [a]cooked their (B)own children;
They became (C)food for them
In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:10 boiled

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