Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria. There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey's head sold for eighty shekels [a] of silver, and a quarter of a cab [b] of seed pods [c] for five shekels. As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, "Help me, my lord the king!"As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, "Help me, my lord the king!" The woman told him,"This woman said to me, 'Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son.' So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give up your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden him."
THAT'S CREEEPY!!!!!!!!!! To kill you're son so that you can EAT!? Was the hate in that land THAT bad? To kill you're son, then eat him?
When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and there, underneath, he had sackcloth on his body. He said, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!"
Why was it Elisha's fault? Apparently it wasn't, cuz Elisha didn't die. But then why did Ben Hadad think so?
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