25. Now there was a great famine in Samaria, since they were besieging it, until a donkey’s head was sold for 80 pieces of silver, and the quarter of a kav of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.
26. As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him saying, “My lord the king, help!”
27. But he said, “If Adonai doesn’t help you, how would I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?”
28. Then the king asked her, “What’s the matter with you?” She answered, “This woman said to me: ‘Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
29. So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I told her: ‘Give your son that we may eat him’—but she hid her son.”