2 Kings 6:24–31

²⁴And it cometh to pass afterwards, that Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathereth all his camp, and goeth up, and layeth siege to Samaria, ²⁵and 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. ²⁶And it cometh to pass, the king of Israel is passing by on the wall, and a woman hath cried unto him, saying, ‘Save, my lord, O king.’ ²⁷And he saith, ‘Jehovah doth not save thee—whence do I save thee? out of the threshing-floor, or out of the wine-vat?’ ²⁸And the king saith to her, ‘What—to thee?’ and she saith, ‘This woman said unto me, Give thy son, and we eat him to-day, and my son we eat to-morrow; ²⁹and we boil my son and eat him, and I say unto her on the next day, Give thy son, and we eat him; and she hideth her son.’ ³⁰And it cometh to pass, at the king’s hearing the words of the woman, that he rendeth his garments, and he is passing by on the wall, and the people see, and lo, the sackcloth is on his flesh within. ³¹And he saith, ‘Thus doth God do to me, and thus He doth add—if it remain—the head of Elisha son of Shaphat—upon him this day.’