Sunday WTF?

Sunday WTF? April 19, 2015

2 Kings 6:24-29

Some time later King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army; he marched against Samaria and laid siege to it. As the siege continued, famine in Samaria became so great that a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver. 

Now as the king of Israel was walking on the city wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help, my lord king!”

He said, “No! Let the Lord help you. How can I help you? From the threshing-floor or from the wine press?” But then the king asked her, “What is your complaint?”

She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son; we will eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son and we will eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”


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