23. He prepared a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding Eretz-Israel.
24. After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
25. 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.
26. As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
27. He said, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”