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2 Kings 6:26-30

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26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
27 He said, "If the LORD does not help you, from where shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?"
28 And the king said to her, "1What is the matter with you?" And she answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
29 "2So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."
30 When the king heard the words of the woman, 3he tore his clothes -now he was passing by on the wall -and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body.
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2 Kings 6:26-30 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 6

In this chapter are recorded other wonders of Elisha, as causing iron to swim, 2Ki 6:1-7 having knowledge of the secret counsels of the king of Syria, which he disclosed to the king of Israel, 2Ki 6:8-12 smiting the Syrian army with blindness sent to take him, and which he led into the midst of Samaria, 2Ki 6:13-23, and the chapter is closed with an account of the siege of Samaria, and a sore famine in it, 2Ki 6:24-33.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 3

  • 1. Judges 18:23
  • 2. Leviticus 26:27-29; Deut 28:52, 53, 57; Lamentations 4:10
  • 3. 1 Kings 21:27

Footnotes 5

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