2 Kings 6:27

New English Translation

He replied, “No, let the Lord help you. How can I help you? The threshing floor and winepress are empty.”

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

2 Kings 6:26

While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him, “Help us, my master, O king!”

2 Kings 6:28

Then the king asked her, “What’s your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’

Psalm 127:1

If the Lord does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the Lord does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.

Psalm 146:3

Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!

Psalm 60:11

Give us help against the enemy, for any help men might offer is futile.

Psalm 62:8

Trust in him at all times, you people! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our shelter! (Selah)

Isaiah 2:2

In the future the mountain of the Lord’s temple will endure as the most important of mountains, and will be the most prominent of hills. All the nations will stream to it,

Jeremiah 17:5

The Lord says, “I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the Lord.