The Importance of Waiting for the Siege of Samaria

Famines are not something that happens overnight. A famine takes a little time to accumulate, right? It's like a drought. You don't have one day without rain and then say, we're going to drought. So what might be going on is this famine stretched into Syria as well. In order to obtain food, they decided that they were going to attack some area and take basically take the food from from their enemies.