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.a great famine 2Ki 6:28,29 7:4 25:3 1Ki 18:2 Jer 14:13-15,18 32:24 52:6
an ass's head If the {pieces} of silver were {dracms}, the whole would amount 2l. 9s.; which was a great price for so {mean} a part of this {unclean} animal. Eze 4:13-16
dove's dung This probably denotes, as Bochart, Scheuchzer, and others suppose, a kind of {pulse}, or {vetches}, which the Arabs still call {pigeon's dung}. `They never,' says Dr. Sahw, `constitute a dish by themselves, but are strewed singly as a garnish over {cuscasowe, pillowe}, and other dishes. They are besides in the greatest repute after they are parched in pans and ovens; then assuming the name {leb-lebby;} ' and he thinks they were so called from being pointed at one end, and acquiring an ash colour in parching.
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