2 Kings 6:25-29 ▼

25 and there is a great famine in Samaria, and behold, they are laying siege to it, until the head of a donkey is at eighty pieces of silver, and a forth of the cab of dove’s dung at five pieces of silver.

26 And it comes to pass, the king of Israel is passing by on the wall, and a woman has cried to him, saying, “Save, my lord, O king.”

27 And he says, “YHWH does not save you—from where do I save you? Out of the threshing-floor or out of the wine-vat?”

28 And the king says to her, “What is [troubling] you?” And she says, “This woman said to me, Give your son, and we eat him today, and we eat my son tomorrow;

29 and we boil my son and eat him, and I say to her on the next day, Give your son, and we eat him; and she hides her son.”