24And it happened after this that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his camp and went up and laid siege to Samaria.25And there was a great famine in Samaria, and behold, they were besieging it until a donkey's head came to be sold for eighty pieces of silver and a fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.26The king of Israel was walking on the wall when a woman cried out to him, "Help me, my lord the king!"27And he said, "The LORD will not save you. From where could I save you—from the threshing floor or from the winepress?"28The king asked her, "What is the matter?" She replied, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son so that we may eat him today, and tomorrow we will eat my son.'"29So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give me your son so that we may eat him,' but she hid her son.30When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his clothes. As he walked along the wall the people saw that he was wearing sackcloth underneath.31He said, "May God do so to me and more if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today."32And Elisha was dwelling in his house, and the elders were dwelling with him. And he sent a man from before him before the messenger came to him, and he said to the elders, "Do you see that this son of the murderer has sent to remove my head? See, when the messenger comes, shut the door and press him at the door. Is not the sound of the feet of my lord behind him?"33While he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down and said, "This trouble comes from the LORD. Why should I wait any longer for the LORD?"
Chapter 7
1Elisha said, "Hear the word of the LORD: This is what the LORD says: 'Tomorrow at this time a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.'"2And the officer who was leaning upon his hand answered the man of God and said, "Behold, the LORD is making windows in the heavens; will this word happen?" And he said, "Behold, you are seeing with your eyes, and from there you will not eat."