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2 Kings 6:25 (100.00%)

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 A kab was about 2 liters, so a fourth of a kab would be about 500 milliliters or about a pint

And there was a great H1419 famine H7458 in Samaria H8111: and, behold, they besieged H6696 (8802) it, until an ass’s H2543 head H7218 was [sold] for fourscore H8084 [pieces] of silver H3701, and the fourth part H7255 of a cab H6894 of dove’s dung H1686 (8675) H3123 H2755 for five H2568 [pieces] of silver H3701.

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 18:27 (100.00%)

But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”

But Rabshakeh H7262 said H559 (8799) unto them, Hath my master H113 sent H7971 (8804) me to thy master H113, and to thee, to speak H1696 (8763) these words H1697? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men H582 which sit H3427 (8802) on the wall H2346, that they may eat H398 (8800) their own dung H6675 (8675) H2755, and drink H8354 (8800) their own piss H4325 H7272 (8675) H7890 with you?

And the chief of the butlers saith unto them, ‘For thy lord, and unto thee, hath my lord sent me to speak these words? is it not for the men, those sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and to drink their own water, with you?’

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