25There was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey`s head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove`s dung for five [pieces] of silver.
26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
27He said, If Yahweh doesn`t help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?
28The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
29So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him; and she has hid her son.
30It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.
31Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
