6:25a So there was a great famine in Samaria.

⌊As a result,⌋ there was a severe shortage of food in the city.

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⌊The soldiers did not allow anyone to enter or leave,⌋ and so soon there was little to eat in the city.

6:25b Indeed, they besieged the city so long

The siege lasted for such a length of time,

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The Aramean/Syrian army surrounded the city for a very long time. People were so hungry that

6:25c that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver,

that the head of a donkey cost eighty silver shekels/coins.

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they were willing to pay eighty pieces of silver for the head of a donkey.

6:25d and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.

It also cost two ounces of silver to pay for one fourth of a measure of dove’s dung.

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⌊As for⌋ a small bowl of dove’s droppings/excrement, people could sell it for five pieces of silver.

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