2 Kgs 6:25

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a great famine.

2Kgs 6:28; 2Kgs 6:29; 2Kgs 7:4; 2Kgs 25:3; 1Kgs 18:2; Jer 14:13-15; Jer 14:18; Jer 32:24; Jer 52:6

an ass's head.If the pieces of silver were {drachms,} the whole would amount to about 2� 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. Shaw, (Travels, p. 140), "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 {leblebby;}" and he thinks they were so called from being pointed at one end, and acquiring an ash colour in parching.