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2 Kings 6:27

He said, “If Yahweh does not help you, how can I help you? Is there anything coming from the threshing floor or winepress?”

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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

26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my master, king.”

28The king continued, “What is troubling you?” She answered, “This woman said to me, 'Give your son so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'”

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Cross References

Psalms 62:8Trust in him at all times, you people; 1 pour out your heart before him; 1 God is a refuge for us. Selah 1

Psalms 124:1“If Yahweh had not been on our side,” 1 let Israel say now, 1

Psalms 146:3Do not put your trust in princes 1 or in mankind, in whom there is no salvation. 1

Jeremiah 17:5Yahweh says, “The person who trusts in mankind is accursed; 1 he makes flesh his strength but turns his heart away from Yahweh. 1

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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