 | Edward Harley - 1730 - 332 pages
...theRemnant of his Children which he (hall leave : 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the Flefli and the fourth part of a Cab of Dove's Dung for five Pieces of Silver if And as the King of Ifrael was pafling by upon the Wall, there cried a Woman unto him, faying, Help,... | |
 | Titus Knight - 1766 - 480 pages
...befieged were reduced to the greateft fcarcity> an afles head being fold for fourfcore pieces of filver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces. Now in this ftraitnefs of the fiege there were four lepers, who probably by reafon of the loathfomrnefs... | |
 | William Charles L. Martin - 1799 - 200 pages
...following passage from the Pictorial Bible gives a compendium of all that has heen mooted on the subject. " The fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. This was about half a pint for 12*. 6d. There has been much diversity of opinion about the 'dove's dung.'... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 534 pages
...upua some ne» » SS 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 clung for five [pieces] of silver. They mere reduced to the last extremity, во that an asa's head,... | |
 | 1808 - 558 pages
...severely distressed, when a certain king of Syria besieged it, that we are told an ass's head then sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's-dung for five pieces :• this last article has been thought to be so unfit for food, that it... | |
 | 1809 - 604 pages
...Socinianism! through the straitness of $he siege wherewith thine enemies have besieged thee, an ass's head is sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for jive pieces of silver !" Let it therefore be shewn that the ' rational ' party... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...and besieged Samaria. 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,...a cab of dove's dung for ' five pieces of silver. And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him raying, Help,... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 pages
...the following clause. " The whole of the quanlity called an ass, vis. of dove's dung, was sold for 80 pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for 5 pieces of silver." The reader will consider the above so far as it seems to be reasonable. The second... | |
 | 1815 - 706 pages
...besieged Samaria. 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,...of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help,... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1816 - 234 pages
...Syria besieged Samaria — 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 (something more than a quarter of a pint) for five pieces of silver. — 3 Kings vi. 25. — When Nebuchadnezzar... | |
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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. 
