Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
2 Kings 6:27
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He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”
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And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
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He said, “If the LORD doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
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And he said, If Jehovah do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?
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2 Kings 6
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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