23 Then he prepared a great feast for them; and after they ate and drank, he sent them away and they went to their master. So (A)the bands of Syrian raiders came no more into the land of Israel.

Syria Besieges Samaria in Famine

24 And it happened after this that (B)Ben-Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great (C)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

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