2 KINGS 6:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.”
The siege becomes so severe that a donkey's head is sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a cab of dove's dung for five shekels — the prices reflect extreme scarcity and desperation. Even inedible items (donkey heads, bird droppings) become commodities. The economic collapse mirrors the city's moral and spiritual crisis.
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