21. The king of Israel said to Elisha when he saw them, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”
22. And he said, “You shall not kill them. Did you capture with your sword and with your bow those whom you want to kill? Set bread and water before them, and let them eat and drink and then go to their master.”
23. So he prepared for them a great banquet. When they had eaten and had drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the Aramean raiders did not enter into the land of Israel again.
24. After this, Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered all his army, went up, and besieged Samaria.
25. There was a great famine in Samaria, and they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.
26. As the king of Israel was walking across the city wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help, my lord king.”
27. He said, “If the Lord will not help you, how can I help you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”
28. And the king said to her, “What is wrong with you?”And she said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son and let us eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
29. So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”