2 Kings 6:27

He said, “If the LORD doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

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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 lord, O king!”

28Then the king asked her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, 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. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Psalms 124:1If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say,

Psalms 146:3Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

Jeremiah 17:5The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs 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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