2 Kings 6:24-26

Modern English Version

Ben-Hadad Besieges Samaria

²⁴ After this, Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered all his army, went up, and besieged Samaria. ²⁵ There was a great famine in Samaria, and they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels^[a] of silver, and one-fourth of a kab^[b] of dove droppings for five shekels^[c] of silver.

²⁶ As the king of Israel was walking across the city wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help, my lord king.”