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2 Kings 6:8-31 (Episode 328)

40 Minutes In The Old Testament

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The Cost of a Donkey's Head

ESV has shackles. You know, when there wasn't a famine, when they had a huge feast. Right. So time has elapsed here. And so if you're wondering, well, how bad a famine was it, and how bad had the siege of the Syrians affected the people of Samaria? Well, we were told at the end of verse 25. A donkey's head would cost you 80 pieces of silver. But also if you wanted a fourth part of a cob, which is probably like a court or a leader of dubs, dong, then you had to pay five pieces of silver for that. Not, I've eaten some gross things, or what some people

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