2 Kings 6:24-29 ▼

24 Later King Benhadad of Aram assembled his whole army. They went to Samaria and blockaded it.

25 The shortages caused by the blockade of Samaria became so severe that a donkey's head sold for two pounds of silver and a half-pint of dove manure for two ounces of silver.

26 As the king of Israel was walking on the city wall, a woman cried to him, |Help me, Your Majesty!|

27 He answered, |If the LORD doesn't help you, how can I help you? I can't give you something from the threshing floor or the winepress.|

28 Then the king asked her, |What's the matter?| She answered, |This woman told me, 'Give up your son. Let's eat him today. We'll eat my son tomorrow.'

29 So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I told her, 'Give up your son. We'll eat him,' but she hid her son.|