2 Kings 6:25
ContextNETBible | 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 |
XREF | 1Ki 18:2; 2Ki 6:28,29; 2Ki 7:4; 2Ki 25:3; Jer 14:13-15,18; Jer 32:24; Jer 52:6; Eze 4:13-16 |
NET © Notes |
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. |