23 And he made great preparation for them: and when they had eaten and drunken, he sent them away: and they went to their master. So the bands of Aram came [a]no more into the land of Israel.

24 But afterward Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered all his host, and went up and besieged Samaria.

25 So there was a great famine in Samaria: for lo, they besieged it until an asses head was at four score pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s [b]dung at five pieces of silver.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 6:23 For this gentle entreaty and the miracle wrought by the Prophet, did more prevail for common quietness, than if they had been overcome in battle: for they returned no more at that time to fight against Israel, or in that King’s days.
  2. 2 Kings 6:25 The Hebrews write, that they burned it in the siege for lack of wood.

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