God’s Word Translation
2 Kings 6:27
27He answered, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, how can I help you? I can’t give you something 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
25The shortages caused by the blockade of Samaria became so severe that a donkey’s head sold for two pounds of silver and a half-pint of dove manure for two ounces of silver. 26As the king of Israel was walking on the city wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, Your Majesty!” He answered, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, how can I help you? I can’t give you something from the threshing floor or the winepress.” 28Then the king asked her, “What’s the matter?” She answered, “This woman told me, ‘Give up your son. Let’s eat him today. We’ll eat my son tomorrow.’ 29So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I told her, ‘Give up your son. We’ll eat him,’ but she hid 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 help against the enemy because human assistance is worthless.
- Psalms 62:8Trust him at all times, you people. Pour out your hearts in his presence. God is our refuge. Selah
- Psalms 118:8It is better to depend on the Lord than to trust mortals.
- Psalms 124:1“If the Lord had not been on our side …” (Israel should repeat this.)
- Psalms 127:1If the Lord does not build the house, it is useless for the builders to work on it. If the Lord does not protect a city, it is useless for the guard to stay alert.
- Psalms 146:3Do not trust influential people, mortals who cannot help you.
- Isaiah 2:2In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s house will be established as the highest of the mountains and raised above the hills. All the nations will stream to it.
- Jeremiah 17:5“This is what the Lord says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away 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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