23. So the king made a great feast for them and then sent them home to their master. After that, the Aramean raiders stayed away from the land of Israel.
24. Some time later, however, King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army and besieged Samaria.
25. As a result, there was a great famine in the city. The siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five pieces of silver.
26. One day as the king of Israel was walking along the wall of the city, a woman called to him, “Please help me, my lord the king!”