2 Kings 6:25
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. 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 Syrian siege shut Samaria in until a great famine took hold of the city. Hunger pressed to such an extreme that even an ass's head commanded fourscore pieces of silver, and a fourth part of a cab of dove's dung sold for five pieces of silver. The distress became so severe that the king was driven to desperate measures.