24. Some time later, however, King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army and besieged Samaria.
25. As a result, there was a great famine in the city. The siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five pieces of silver.
26. One day as the king of Israel was walking along the wall of the city, a woman called to him, “Please help me, my lord the king!”