23. So he prepared a great feast for them. After they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went back to their master. Ever since, the marauding bands of Aram stopped invading the land of Israel.
24. Now it came to pass after this, that King Ben-hadad of Aram gathered all his army and marched against Samaria and besieged it.
25. Now there was a great famine in Samaria, since they were besieging it, until a donkey’s head was sold for 80 pieces of silver, and the quarter of a kav of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.
26. As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him saying, “My lord the king, help!”
27. But he said, “If Adonai doesn’t help you, how would I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?”
28. Then the king asked her, “What’s the matter with you?” She answered, “This woman said to me: ‘Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’