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2 Kings 6:27
2 Kings 6:27 is verse 27 of 2 Kings chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”
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?
World English Bible
He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
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2 Kings 6:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
27 He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”
28 Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’
29 So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 60:11Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.
Psalms 62:8Trust in Him at all times, O 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 man.
Psalms 118:9It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.
Psalms 124:1If the LORD had not been on our side— let Israel now declare—
Psalms 124:2if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,
Psalms 124:3when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
Psalms 127:1Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.
Psalms 146:3Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
Isaiah 2:2In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.