2 Kings 6:27

Modern English Version

He said, “If the Lord will not help you, how can I help you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned with a great and very sorrowful lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

2 Kings 6:26

As the king of Israel was walking across the city wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help, my lord king.”

2 Kings 6:28

And the king said to her, “What is wrong with you?” And she said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son and let us eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

Psalm 146:3

Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

Psalm 60:11

O grant us help against the adversary, for vain is the help of man.

Psalm 62:8

Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.   Selah

Isaiah 2:2

In the last days, the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow to it.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the Lord.