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Inside besieged Samaria, the marketplace is nearly bare and desperate people face extreme prices for meager food.
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2 Kings 6:25

Famine in the City

The Unseen Army and the Siege · 2 Kings 6

Story guide: Inside besieged Samaria, the marketplace is nearly bare and desperate people face extreme prices for meager food.

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25There was a severe famine in Samaria. The siege continued until a donkey’s head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a quarter of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

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