2 Kings 6:25 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.”
2 Kings 6:25 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
2 Kings 6:25 in 6 Bible Translations
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2 Kings 6:25 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.”
2 Kings 6:25 — World English Bible
2 Kings 6:25 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.”
2 Kings 6:25 — American Standard Version
2 Kings 6:25 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“and there is a great famine in Samaria, and lo, they are laying siege to it, till the head of an ass is at eighty silverlings, and a forth of the cab of dovesdung at five silverlings.”
2 Kings 6:25 — Young's Literal Translation
2 Kings 6:25 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung five silver-pieces.”
2 Kings 6:25 — Darby Translation
2 Kings 6:25 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“So there was a great famine in Samaria: for loe, they besieged it vntill an asses head was at foure score pieces of siluer, and the fourth part of a kab of doues doung at fiue pieces of siluer.”
2 Kings 6:25 — Geneva Bible
2 Kings 6:25 in Context — 2 Kings 6
23 Então lhes foi preparada grande comida: e quando houveram comido e bebido, enviou-os, e eles se voltaram a seu senhor. E nunca mais tropas da Síria vieram à terra de Israel.
24 Depois disto aconteceu, que Ben-Hadade rei da Síria juntou todo seu exército, e subiu, e pôs cerco a Samaria.
25 E houve grande fome em Samaria, tendo eles cerco sobre ela; tanto, que a cabeça de um asno era vendida por oitenta peças de prata, e a quarta parte de uma porção de esterco de pombas por cinco peças de prata.
26 E passando o rei de Israel pelo muro, uma mulher gritou-lhe, e disse: Socorro, rei, senhor meu.
27 E ele disse: Se o SENHOR não te salva, de onde eu tenho de te salvar? Do granário, ou da prensa de uvas?
What Does 2 Kings 6:25 Mean?
2 Kings 6:25 is a verse from the Book of 2 Kings, part of the Old Testament. It appears in 2 Kings chapter 6. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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