New American Standard Bible 1995
2 Kings 6:25-29
25There was a great 1famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a 2kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
27He said, “3If the Lord does not help you, from where shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
28And the king said to her, “4What 5is the matter with you?” And she 6answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
297So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”
Notes
- 1. 2 Kings 6:25 Lev 26:26 ↩
- 2. 2 Kings 6:25 I.e. One kab equals approx 2 qts ↩
- 3. 2 Kings 6:27 Lit No, let the Lord help you ↩
- 4. 2 Kings 6:28 Judg 18:23 ↩
- 5. 2 Kings 6:28 Lit to you ↩
- 6. 2 Kings 6:28 Lit said ↩
- 7. 2 Kings 6:29 Lev 26:27-29; Deut 28:52, 53, 57; Lam 4:10 ↩
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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