2 Kings 6:25-29 — Legacy Standard Bible

²⁵Now there was a great ^afamine in Samaria. And behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for ¹eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a ²kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver. ²⁶As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Save, my lord, O king!” ²⁷He said, “¹If Yahweh does not save you, from where shall I save you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?” ²⁸And the king said to her, “^aWhat ¹is the matter with you?” And she said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ ²⁹“^aSo we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”