2 Kings 6:27

And he said, If the Lord does not give you help, where am I to get help for you? from the grain-floor or the grape-crusher?

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In The King James Version

And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

In Context

26And when the king of Israel was going by on the wall, a woman came crying out to him, and said, Help! my lord king.

28And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.

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Cross References

Psalms 62:8\62:7\In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.

Psalms 124:1A Song of the going up. Of David. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say);

Psalms 146:3Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

Jeremiah 17:5This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 6:25-33

The Siege of Samaria. ( b. c. 891.) 24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the Lord do not… Read the whole commentary →

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