2 Kings 6:25

KJV

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

— 2 Kings 6:25, King James Version
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Context

This verse from 2 Kings Chapter 6 connects to 10 cross-references. Elisha helps recover a borrowed axe head that sank in the Jordan by making it float on a stick. God opens the servant's eyes to see the hills full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha when the Aramean …

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Other Translations

ASV

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

YLT

and there is a great famine in Samaria, and lo, they are laying siege to it, till the head of an ass is at eighty silverlings, and a forth of the cab of dovesdung at five silverlings.

BBE

And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

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