2Ki 6:25 Cross References

2 Kings 6:25

25: As a result there was a great famine in the city. After a while even a donkey's head sold for two pounds of silver, and a cup of dove's dung cost about two ounces of silver.

Jeremiah 32:24

  1. "See how the siege ramps have been built against the city walls! Because of war, famine, and disease, the city has been handed over to the Babylonians, who will conquer it. Everything has happened just as you said it would.

Jeremiah 14:13

  1. Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, their prophets are telling them, `All is well--no war or famine will come. The LORD will surely send you peace.'"
  2. Then the LORD said, "These prophets are telling lies in my name. I did not send them or tell them to speak. I did not give them any messages. They prophesy of visions and revelations they have never seen or heard. They speak foolishness made up in their own lying hearts.
  3. Therefore, says the LORD, I will punish these lying prophets, for they have spoken in my name even though I never sent them. They say that no war or famine will come, but they themselves will die by war and famine!

2 Kings 6:28

  1. But then the king asked, "What is the matter?" She replied, "This woman proposed that we eat my son one day and her son the next.
  2. So we cooked my son and ate him. Then the next day I said, `Kill your son so we can eat him,' but she had hidden him."

Jeremiah 52:6

  1. By July 18 of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the famine in the city had become very severe, with the last of the food entirely gone.

Jeremiah 14:18

  1. If I go out into the fields, I see the bodies of people slaughtered by the enemy. If I walk the city streets, there I see people who have died of starvation. The prophets and priests continue with their work, but they do not know what they are doing.'"

2 Kings 7:4

  1. "We will starve if we stay here, and we will starve if we go back into the city. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway."

Ezekiel 4:13

  1. For this is what the LORD says: Israel will eat defiled bread in the Gentile lands, where I will banish them!"
  2. Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or that I found dead. And I have never eaten any of the animals that our laws forbid."
  3. "All right," the LORD said. "You may bake your bread with cow dung instead of human dung."
  4. Then he told me, "Son of man, I will cause food to be very scarce in Jerusalem. It will be weighed out with great care and eaten fearfully. The water will be portioned out drop by drop, and the people will drink it with dismay.

1 Kings 18:2

  1. So Elijah went to appear before Ahab. Meanwhile, the famine had become very severe in Samaria.

Leviticus 26:26

  1. I will completely destroy your food supply, so the bread from one oven will have to be stretched to feed ten families. They will ration your food by weight, and even if you have food to eat, you will not be satisfied.

2 Kings 25:3

  1. By July 18 of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the famine in the city had become very severe, with the last of the food entirely gone.
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