2 Kings 6:25
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| Overview - 2 Kings 6 | |
| 1 | Elisha, giving leave to the young prophets to enlarge their dwellings, causes iron to swim. |
| 8 | He discloses the king of Syria's counsel. |
| 13 | The army which was sent to Dothan to apprehend Elisha, is smitten with blindness. |
| 19 | Being brought into Samaria, they are dismissed in peace. |
| 24 | The famine in Samaria causes women to eat their own children. |
| 30 | The king sends to slay Elisha. |
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2 Kings 6:25 (King James Version)
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.
- a great famine
- 2 Kings 6:28 2 Kings 6:29 ; 7:4 25:3 1 Kings 18:2 ; Jeremiah 14:13-15 Jeremiah 14:18 ; 32:24 52:6
- an ass's head
- If the pieces of silver were {drachms,} the whole would amount to about 2
- 9s.; which was a great price for so mean a part of this unclean animal.
- Ezekiel 4:13-16
- dove's dung
- This probably denotes, as Bochart, Scheuchzer, and others suppose, a kind of {pulse,} or {vetches,} which the Arabs still call pigeon's dung
- "They never," says Dr. Shaw, (Travels, p. 140), "constitute a dish by themselves, but are
- strewed singly as a garnish over {cuscasowe, pillowe,} and other dishes. They are besides in the greatest repute after they are parched in pans and ovens; then assuming the name {leblebby;}" and he thinks they were so called from being
- pointed at one end, and acquiring an ash colour in parching.