2Kings:6:24-7

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* And it came to pass after this , that Ben –hadad the king of Syria assembled all his camp , and went up , and besieged Samaria . * And there was a great famine in Samaria ; and , behold , they besieged it , until an ass ’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver , and the fourth part of a kab of dove ’s dung for five pieces of silver . * And it happened as the king of Israel was passing along upon the wall , that a woman cried unto him , saying , Help , my Lord , O king . * And he said , If the Lord do not help thee , whence shall I help thee ? shall it be out of the threshing –floor , or out of the wine –press ? * And the king said unto her , What aileth thee ? And she said , This woman said unto me , Give up thy son , that we may eat him today , and my son we will eat tomorrow . * So we boiled my son , and ate him ; but when I said unto her on the next day , Give up thy son , that we may eat him : she hid her son . * And it came to pass , when the king heard the words of the woman , that he rent his clothes , as he was passing along upon the wall : and the people looked , and , behold , he had sackcloth beneath upon his flesh . * Then said he , May God do so unto me and continue so yet farther , if the head of Elisha ’ the son of Shaphat shall remain on him this day . * But Elisha ’ was sitting in his house , and the elders were sitting with him ; and he sent a man from before him ; but before the messenger could yet come to him , he said to the elders , See ye how this son of the murderer hath sent to remove my head ? look , when the messenger cometh , shut the door , and hold him back with the door : is not the sound of his master ’s feet behind him ? * And while he was yet speaking with them , behold , the messenger came down unto him : and he said , Behold , this evil is of the Lord ; what shall I hope for in the Lord any longer ?

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