Does the Bible mention the eating of dung?

Question

Joe C....thanks for the right wing propaganda....how's that workin for ya?

Answer 1

Coprophagic practice is sick, dude.

Answer 2

Dove's dung :

"2Ki 6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ***'s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. " (that word that Yahoo Answers does not allow is "a s s", that is a donkey)

Note that this was not dung, it was a kind of peas, as shown by the folowing commentry by Matthew Henry:

"I. The siege which the king of Syria laid to Samaria and the great distress which the city was reduced to thereby. The Syrians had soon forgotten the kindnesses they had lately received in Samaria, and very ungratefully, for aught that appears without any provocation, sought the destruction of it, 2Ki_6:24. There are base spirits that can never feel obliged. The country, we may suppose, was plundered and laid waste when this capital city was brought to the last extremity, 2Ki_6:25. The dearth which had of late been in the land was probably the occasion of the emptiness of their stores, or the siege was so sudden that they had not time to lay in provisions; so that, while the sword devoured without, the famine within was more grievous (Lam_4:9): for, it should seem, the Syrians designed not to storm the city, but to starve it. So great was the scarcity that an ***'s head, that has but little flesh on it and that unsavoury, unwholesome, and ceremonially unclean, was sold for five pounds, and a small quantity of fitches, or lentiles, or some such coarse corn, then called dove's dung, no more of it than the quantity of six eggs, for five pieces of silver, about twelve or fifteen shillings. Learn to value plenty, and to be thankful for it; see how contemptible money is, when, in time of famine, it is so freely parted with for anything that is eatable."

During that same seige, a woman complained to the king because she had killed her son for food and shared it with her friend the previous day, and now her friend had hidden her (the friend's) son so that they cannot have food today, as previously agreed!!!

Answer 3

Somewhere in the old testament I have read that. Ezekiel, or which ever was the Watchman.
He was told to eat his food off human dung, but he pleaded with the Lord, and was allowed to use cow dung.
If you don't think this is realistic, consider our nice health board (canada) who says its perfectly safe, to put Toronto's human sewage, on our fields, for fertilizer. (Farmers get this sh t for free, so). Now we eat vegetables, grown out of human feces.
Is this really safe, as the officials say? Humans are meat eaters with all kinds of sicknesses. What medical stuff is flush down the tube? So the prophet protested, and the Lord said he could use cow dung. (Organic).

Answer 4

Yes, in two places:

2 Kings 18:27 and Isaiah 36:12.

Answer 5

Yes.

2 Kings 18:27b
...they may eat their own dung, and drink their own **** with you?

Answer 6

I change my initial answer from "no" to "yes", but only after looking up the 2 passages Suzanne mentioned. She is correct, & I give her credit.

Answer 7

Let us remember the historical context that the OT scriptures were written.

Answer 8

Suzzane is right, but its not considered a positive thing. It also talks about p!ss.

Answer 9

This is practiced a lot by some homosexuals, but the liberal media isn't going to tell you that.

Answer 10

Probably, because as we all know... the Bible is only good for wiping one's *** after taking dumps.