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2 Kings 6:27 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 6 · verse 27
And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?2 Kings 6:27 · King James Version
2 Kings 6:27 in context
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.
29So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- barnfloorgôrena threshing-floorH1637 →
- winepressyeqeba troughH3342 →
- whenceʼayinwhere?H370 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- helpyâshaʻproperly, to be open, wide or freeH3467 →
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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