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2 Kings 6:25

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.

2 Kings 6:25 BSB
  1. a 80 shekels is approximately 2 pounds or 907.2 grams of silver.
  2. b Or a quarter cab of seed pods; that is, approximately 0.28 dry quarts or 0.31 liters
  3. c 5 shekels is approximately 2 ounces or 57 grams of silver.

2 Kings 6:25 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Kings 6:28–29 (4 votes) and Jeremiah 14:13–15 (4 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 12 to Amos 4.

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Which verses does 2 Kings 6:25 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. 2 Kings 6:28–294 votes

    Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’ So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”

  2. Jeremiah 14:13–154 votes

    “Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’” “The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds. …

  3. Jeremiah 14:184 votes

    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 prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

  4. Jeremiah 52:64 votes

    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.

  5. Jeremiah 32:243 votes

    See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!

  6. 1 Kings 18:22 votes

    So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,

  7. 2 Kings 7:42 votes

    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 die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”

  8. 2 Kings 25:32 votes

    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.

  9. Ezekiel 4:13–162 votes

    Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.” “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.” …

  10. Leviticus 26:261 vote

    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, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Which verses point to 2 Kings 6:25?

The 10 strongest of 17.