Siege: Distress of the Inhabitants During A

Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria. …

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’