2 Kings 6:27

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He said, “No! Let the Lord help you. How can I help you? From the threshing floor or from the wine press?”

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days.

2 Kings 6:26

Now as the king of Israel was walking on the city wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help, my lord king!”

2 Kings 6:28

But then the king asked her, “What is your complaint?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son; we will eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.

Psalm 146:3

Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.

Psalm 60:11

O grant us help against the foe, for human help is worthless.

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 days to come the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; all the nations shall stream to it.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord.