Devine Scripture

2 Kings 6:25

2 Kings chapter 6 · verse 25 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.24And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

v.25This passage

v.26And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

Cross references

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

  • Jeremiah 14:13

    Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

  • 1 Kings 18:2

    And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And the famine was sore in Samaria.

  • Jeremiah 14:18

    If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 52:6

    In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

  • Ezekiel 4:13

    And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.

  • Jeremiah 32:24

    Behold, the mounds, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.