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2 Kings 6:24-26
World English Bible
2 Kings 6:24-26
World English Bible
24 After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. 25 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab[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 to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
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- 6:25 A kab was about 2 liters, so a fourth of a kab would be about 500 milliliters or about a pint
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