There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey's head sold for 80 shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels.(According to Unger's Bible Dictionary, a cab is about two quarts, so about a pint of seed pods cost 5 shekels. Keep that price in mind.) That's the situation. And now2 Kings 6.25
Elisha said, "Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Lord says: About this time tomorrow, a seah of flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria."(A seah is about 17 pints, so 17 pints of flour - not seed pods - for one shekel - an incredible price drop.)The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, "Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?"
2 Kings 7.1-2