22. Elisha answered, “Don’t kill them. You wouldn’t kill people whom you captured with your sword and bow. Give them food and water, and let them eat and drink and then go home to their master.”
23. So he prepared a great feast for the Aramean army. After they ate and drank, the king sent them away, and they went home to their master. The soldiers of Aram did not come anymore into the land of Israel.
24. Later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered his whole army and surrounded and attacked Samaria.
25. There was a shortage of food in Samaria. It was so bad that a donkey’s head sold for about two pounds of silver, and half of a pint of dove’s dung sold for about two ounces of silver.
26. As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman yelled out to him, “Help me, my master and king!”
27. The king said, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, how can I? Can I get help from the threshing floor or from the winepress?”