2nd Kings Chapter 6 verse 27 Holy Bible
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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And he said, If the Lord does not give you help, where am I to get help for you? from the grain-floor or the grape-crusher?
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And he said, If Jehovah do not help thee, whence should I help thee? Out of the threshing-floor, or out of 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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And he said, If the LORD doth not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barn-floor, or out of the wine-press?
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He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?
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And he saith, `Jehovah doth not save thee -- whence do I save thee? out of the threshing-floor, or out of the wine-vat?'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - And he said, If the Lord do not help thee. This is probably the true mean-tug. The king is not so brutal as to "curse" the woman (ἐπηράσατο αὐτή τὸν Θεόν, Josephus, ' Ant. Jud.,' 9:4. § 4); neither does he take upon himself to tell her that God will not save her (Maurer). He merely refers her to God, as alone competent to do what she asks. Whence shall I help thee? Whence, i.e., dost thou suppose that I can save thee? Out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? Dost thou suppose that I have stores of food at my disposal? An overflowing barnfloor, where abundant corn is garnered, or a winepress full of the juice of the grape? I have nothing of the kind; my stores are as much exhausted as those of the meanest of my subjects. I cannot save thee.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) If the Lord do not help thee.--This is right. The marginal rendering, "Let not the Lord help thee!"--i.e., "May the Lord destroy thee!" would be possible in another context. Another rendering is, "Nay (i.e., do not supplicate me), let the Lord help thee!"Out of the barnfloor.--Comp. Hosea ix 2.: "The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her." Jehoram, in the irony of despair, reminds the woman of what she well knows--viz., that the corn and wine, the staple foods of the time, are long since exhausted. The words, "If the Lord do not help thee," may be compared with 2Kings 3:10, "Alas! that the Lord hath called," &c. The character of Jehoram is consistently drawn. But perhaps the point is: "Jehovah alone is the giver of corn and wine (Hosea 2:8-9). Appeal not to me for these."
