Ben-hadad's Siege of Samaria
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Afterward y Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and besieged Samaria.
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And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.
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Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
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And he said, "If the Lord will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?"
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And the king asked her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
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z So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, 'Give your son, that we may eat him.' But she has hidden her son."
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When the king heard the words of the woman, a he tore his clothes - now he was passing by on the wall - and the people looked, and behold, a he had sackcloth beneath on his body -
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and he said, b "May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today."
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Elisha was sitting in his house, c and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, "Do you see how this d murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
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And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, "This trouble is from the Lord! e Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?"
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Cross References
1 Kings 20:1
Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together. Thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and closed in on Samaria and fought against it.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:29
You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
Deuteronomy 28:53
And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
Deuteronomy 28:57
Her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.
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Cross References
1 Kings 21:27
And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
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Cross References
1 Kings 21:27
And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
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Cross References
1 Kings 19:2
Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.
Ruth 1:17
Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 8:1
In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.
Ezekiel 14:1
Then certain of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.
Ezekiel 20:1
In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me.
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Cross References
1 Kings 18:4
And when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings 21:13
And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
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Cross References
Job 2:9
Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.
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