24 Now it happened that, after these things, Benhadad, the king of Syria, gathered together his entire army, and he ascended and was besieging Samaria.
25 And a great famine occurred in Samaria. And it was blockaded for a long time, until the head of a donkey was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and one fourth part of a pint of pigeons' dung sold for five silver coins.
26 And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying, 'Save me, my lord the king!'
27 And he said: 'If the Lord does not save you, how am I able to save you? From the grain floor, or from the wine press?' And the king said to her, 'What is the matter with you?' And she responded:
28 'This woman said to me: 'Give your son, so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
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