2 Kings 6:25 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
2 Kings 6:25 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
2 Kings 6:25 in 6 Bible Translations
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2 Kings 6:25 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.”
2 Kings 6:25 — World English Bible
2 Kings 6:25 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“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 kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver. ”
2 Kings 6:25 — American Standard Version
2 Kings 6:25 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“and there is a great famine in Samaria, and lo, they are laying siege to it, till the head of an ass is at eighty silverlings, and a forth of the cab of dovesdung at five silverlings.”
2 Kings 6:25 — Young's Literal Translation
2 Kings 6:25 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung five silver-pieces. ”
2 Kings 6:25 — Darby Translation
2 Kings 6:25 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“So there was a great famine in Samaria: for loe, they besieged it vntill an asses head was at foure score pieces of siluer, and the fourth part of a kab of doues doung at fiue pieces of siluer.”
2 Kings 6:25 — Geneva Bible
2 Kings 6:25 in Context — 2 Kings 6
23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
24 And it came to pass after this, that Ben–hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
25 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.
26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
27 And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
What Does 2 Kings 6:25 Mean?
2 Kings 6:25 is a verse from the Book of 2 Kings, part of the Old Testament. It appears in 2 Kings chapter 6. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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