dove in 2 Kings 6

This creature shows up in 2 Kings 6:25: “There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real creature in a real place.

2 Kings 6:25

“There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.”

What kids can learn

When you hear dove in 2 Kings, remember the sentence around it. God put this creature in the story on purpose.

Read 2 Kings 6:25 again tomorrow and ask what the creature is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.