Devine Scripture

2 Kings 6:24

2 Kings chapter 6 · verse 24 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And it came to pass after this, that Ben–hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

Context

v.23And he prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

v.24This passage

v.25And 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 28:52

    And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

  • 1 Kings 22:31

    Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty and two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.

  • 2 Kings 25:1

    And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

  • 2 Kings 17:5

    Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:14

    There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

  • 1 Kings 20:1

    And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together; and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.