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2 Kings 6:27
27He answered, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”
2 Kings 6:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
- New International Version (NIV)The king replied, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?”
- English Standard Version (ESV)And he said, "If the Lord will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?"
- New King James Version (NKJV)And he said, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”
Context of 2 Kings 6:27
25So there was a severe famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey’s head sold for thirty-four ounces of silver, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for two ounces of silver. 26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “My lord the king, help!” He answered, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?” 28Then the king asked her, “What’s the matter?” She said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29So we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him,’ but she has hidden her son.”
Read all of 2 Kings 62 Kings 6:27 word by word
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אַל־יוֹשִׁעֵ֣ךְ יְהוָ֔ה מֵאַ֖יִן אֽוֹשִׁיעֵ֑ךְ הֲמִן־הַגֹּ֖רֶן א֥וֹ מִן־הַיָּֽקֶב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for 2 Kings 6:27
- Psalms 60:11Give us aid against the foe, for human help is worthless.
- Psalms 62:8Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts before him. God is our refuge.Selah
- Psalms 118:8It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in humanity.
- Psalms 124:1If the Lord had not been on our side — let Israel say —
- Psalms 127:1Unless the Lord builds a house, its builders labor over it in vain; unless the Lord watches over a city, the watchman stays alert in vain.
- Psalms 146:3Do not trust in nobles, in a son of man, who cannot save.
- Isaiah 2:2In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s house will be established at the top of the mountains and will be raised above the hills. All nations will stream to it,
- Jeremiah 17:5This is what the Lord says: Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind. He makes human flesh his strength, and his heart turns from the Lord.
Commentaries on 2 Kings 6:27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27If the Lord do not help thee - Some read this as an imprecation, May God save thee not! how can I save thee?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 27If the Lord do not help - The translation in the text is decidedly better than the marginal rendering. Some prefer to render - “Nay let Jehovah help thee. Whence, shall I help thee?” Out of the barnfloor - The king means that both were empty - that he had no longer any food in store; and therefore could not help the woman. Compare Hosea 9:2.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24-33Verses 24-33 Learn to value plenty, and to be thankful for it; see how contemptible money is, when in time of famine it is so freely parted with for any thing that is eatable! The language of Jehoram to the woman may be the language of despair. See the word of God fulfilled; among the threatenings of God's judgments upon Israel for their sins, this was one, that they should eat the flesh of their own children, De 28:53-57. The truth and the awful justice…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26-29Cannibalism (the act of eating human flesh) in extreme times was part of God’s warning of judgment for unfaithfulness and disobedience (Deuteronomy 28:53, 57). It also happened during the siege that led to Jerusalem's fall (Lamentations 4:9–10).Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Kings 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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