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2 Kings 6:25

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6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out. 1  They laid siege to it so long that 2  a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver 3  and a quarter of a kab 4  of dove’s droppings 5  for five shekels of silver. 6 

1 tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

2 tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

3 tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

4 sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

5 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) reads, “dove dung” (חֲרֵייוֹנִים, khareyonim), while the marginal reading (Qere) has “discharge” (דִּבְיוֹנִים, divyonim). Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that “dove’s dung” was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds.

6 tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.



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