2 Kings 6:27
And he said: 'If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the threshingfloor, or out of the winepress?'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Psalms 62:8(62-9) Trust in Him at all times, ye people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
Psalms 124:1A Song of Ascents; of David. 'If it had not been the LORD who was for us', let Israel now say;
Psalms 146:3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Jeremiah 17:5Thus saith the LORD: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth 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 →