 And 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.  The History of Antiquity - Page 251by Max Duncker - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Edward Harley - 1730 - 332 pages
...theRemnant of his Children which he (hall leave : 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the Flefli and the fourth part of a Cab of Dove's Dung for five Pieces of Silver if And as the King of Ifrael was pafling by upon the Wall, there cried a Woman unto... | |
 | Titus Knight - Sermons - 1766 - 480 pages
...befieged were reduced to the greateft fcarcity> an afles head being fold for fourfcore pieces of filver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces. Now in this ftraitnefs of the fiege there were four lepers, who probably by reafon of the loathfomrnefs... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...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. And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - Bible - 1814 - 636 pages
...And there mas a great famine in Samaria, until an ass's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. Here are two perplexing subjects, the first is the head of the ass. It is true, there... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 706 pages
...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. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 460 pages
...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. And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman uuto... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 554 pages
...Syrians, and provisions were exceedingly scarce, " 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." 2 Kings vi. 25. So time is the more to be prized by men, because a whole eternity... | |
 | 1818 - 948 pages
...Samaria: and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was »oíd for fourscore pieces of silver, LORD have called thee in rigbteousness, and will hol pieces of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman ,... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1820 - 514 pages
...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." On which Orton says, " They were reduced to the last extremity, so that an ass's... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1824
...Samaria. And so great was the distress, that even 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. Yea, so desperate were the poor starving Samaritans, that we read of two mothers... | |
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