23. So he prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. So the bands from Aram stopped raiding Israel’s territory.
24. Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria.
25. There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels.
26. As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”