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2 Kings 6:23-25
New American Standard Bible 1995
2 Kings 6:23-25
New American Standard Bible 1995
23 So he prepared a great feast for them; and when they had eaten and drunk he sent them away, and they went to their master. And (A)the marauding bands of Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel.
The Siege of Samaria—Cannibalism
24 Now it came about after this, that (B)Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria. 25 There was a great (C)famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a [a]kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
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- 2 Kings 6:25 I.e. One kab equals approx 2 qts
New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)
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