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2 Kings 6:26 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 6 · verse 26
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.2 Kings 6:26 · King James Version
2 Kings 6:26 in context
24And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
25And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.
26And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
27And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
28And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- sayingʼâmarto sayH559 →
- criedtsâʻaqto shriekH6817 →
- womanʼishshâha womanH802 →
- kingmeleka kingH4428 →
- wallchôwmâha wall of protectionH2346 →
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This last paragraph of this chapter should, of right, have been the first of the next chapter, for it begins a new story, which is there continued and concluded. Here is, I. The siege which the king of Syria laid to Samaria and the great distress which the city was reduced to thereby.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 24-33