So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may
If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I wil
See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has bee
If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also di
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish th
So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight,