2 Kings 6:24–31

^24*And it came to pass after this, that ^oBen-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. ²⁵And 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. ²⁶And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. ²⁷And he said, ^||If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the ^pbarnfloor, or out of the winepress? ²⁸And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. ²⁹So ^qwe boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the ^†next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. ³⁰And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he ^rrent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had ^rsackcloth within upon his flesh. ³¹Then he said, ^sGod do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.