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24 Now it came to pass after this, that King Ben-hadad of Aram gathered all his army and marched against Samaria and besieged it. 25 Now there was a great famine in Samaria, since they were besieging it, until a donkey’s head was sold for 80 pieces of silver, and the quarter of a kav[a] of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him saying, “My lord the king, help!”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 6:25 Quarter of a kav was about half a pint.