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2 Kings 6:27
27He answered, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, what can I do? I have neither food from the threshing floor nor wine from the press to give you.”
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
25As a result, there was a great famine in the city. The siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five pieces of silver. 26One day as the king of Israel was walking along the wall of the city, a woman called to him, “Please help me, my lord the king!” He answered, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, what can I do? I have neither food from the threshing floor nor wine from the press to give you.” 28But then the king asked, “What is the matter?” She replied, “This woman said to me: ‘Come on, let’s eat your son today, then we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29So we cooked my son and ate him. Then the next day I said to her, ‘Kill your son so we can 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 60:11Oh, please help us against our enemies, for all human help is useless.
- Psalms 62:8O my people, trust in him at all times. Pour out your heart to him, for God is our refuge. Interlude
- Psalms 118:8It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in people.
- Psalms 124:1What if the Lord had not been on our side? Let all Israel repeat:
- Psalms 127:1Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good.
- Psalms 146:3Don’t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there.
- Isaiah 2:2In the last days, the mountain of the Lord’s house will be the highest of all— the most important place on earth. It will be raised above the other hills, and people from all over the world will stream there to worship.
- Jeremiah 17:5This is what the Lord says: “Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts 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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