Ben-hadad's Siege of Samaria
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And it happened after this that o BenHadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
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And there was a great p famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.
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Then, 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 does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?"
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Then the king said to her, "What is troubling you?" And 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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"So q we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."
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Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he r tore his clothes; and as he passed by on the wall, the people looked, and there underneath he had sackcloth on his body.
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Then he said, s "God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today!"
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But Elisha was sitting in his house, and t the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, u "Do you see how this son of v a murderer has sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
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And while he was still talking with them, there was the messenger, coming down to him; and then the king said, "Surely this calamity is from the LORD; w why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"
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1 Kings 20:1
Now BenHadad the king of Syria gathered all his forces together; thirty-two kings were with him, with horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria, and made war against it.
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2 Kings 4:38
And Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. Now the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.
2 Kings 8:1
Then Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise and go, you and your household, and stay wherever you can; for the LORD has called for a famine, and furthermore, it will come upon the land for seven years.
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Leviticus 26:27 - 29
And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me.
Deuteronomy 28:52 - 57
They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you.
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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1 Kings 21:27
So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.
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Ruth 1:17
Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.
1 Kings 19:2
Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
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Ezekiel 8:1
And it came to pass 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, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there.
Ezekiel 14:1
Now some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.
Ezekiel 20:1
It came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
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Luke 13:32
And He said to them, "Go, tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
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1 Kings 18:4
For so it was, while Jezebel massacred the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah had taken one hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings 18:13
Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid one hundred men of the LORD's prophets, fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings 18:14
"And now you say, 'Go, tell your master, "Elijah is here." ' He will kill me!"
1 Kings 21:10
And seat two men, scoundrels, before him to bear witness against him, saying, "You have blasphemed God and the king." Then take him out, and stone him, that he may die.
1 Kings 21:13
And two men, scoundrels, came in and sat before him; and the scoundrels witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth has blasphemed God and the king!" Then they took him outside the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
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Job 2:9
Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!
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