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24 Afterward, Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered his whole army and went up and besieged Samaria,

25 And a great famine came to Samaria. They besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove’s dung [a wild vegetable] for five shekels of silver.

26 As the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried to him, Help, my lord, O king!

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