2 Kings 6:24-29

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

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!

²⁷ He said, [For] if he does not help you [No, let the Lord help you!], from where can I get you help? Out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?

²⁸ And the king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman said to me, Give me your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

²⁹ So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, Give your son so we may eat him, but she had hidden her son.