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2 Kings 6:24-25
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The Lord Saves Samaria

24 Later King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled his entire army and attacked[a] and besieged Samaria. 25 Samaria’s food supply ran out.[b] They laid siege to it so long that[c] a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver[d] and a quarter of a kab[e] of dove’s droppings[f] for five shekels of silver.[g]

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  1. 2 Kings 6:24 tn Heb “went up.”
  2. 2 Kings 6:25 tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”
  3. 2 Kings 6:25 tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”
  4. 2 Kings 6:25 tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.
  5. 2 Kings 6:25 sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately 2 quarts (2 liters).
  6. 2 Kings 6:25 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) reads “dove dung” (חֲרֵייוֹנִים, khareyonim), while the marginal reading (Qere) has “discharge” (דִּבְיוֹנִים, divyonim). Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that “dove’s dung” was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds.
  7. 2 Kings 6:25 tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.
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