25And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.
26And when the king of Israel was going by on the wall, a woman came crying out to him, and said, Help! my lord king.
27And he said, If the Lord does not give you help, where am I to get help for you? from the grain-floor or the grape-crusher?
28And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.
29So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.
30Then the king, hearing what the woman said, took his robes in his hands, violently parting them; and, while he was walking on the wall, the people, looking, saw that under his robe he had haircloth on his flesh.
31Then he said, May God's punishment come on me if Elisha, the son of Shaphat, keeps his head on his body after this day.
