an asses head] Not fit to be eaten, but in extreme famine. fourscore pieces of silver] Ten pound sterling. See Chap. 5. vers. 5. the fourth part of a cab, &c.] A cab is an Hebrew measure, of a pottle or thereabouts: the fourth part is a pine. doves dung] Which may be taken for the corn in their crop, which, by flying, they brought out of the fields into the city: or for that corn which was in their entrails, and came from them: or else their very dung might be eaten in that extremity, or used for salt, or for fuell. five pieces of silver] Twelve shillings and six pence.