the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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4 Царе 6:27
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If the Lord: etc. or, Let not the Lord save thee
whence: Psalms 60:11, Psalms 62:8, Psalms 118:8, Psalms 118:9, Psalms 124:1-3, Psalms 127:1, Psalms 146:3, Isaiah 2:2, Jeremiah 17:5
Reciprocal: Genesis 41:16 - It is not Numbers 18:27 - the corn Deuteronomy 28:8 - storehouses 1 Samuel 28:16 - Wherefore 2 Kings 4:2 - What shall I Job 21:4 - if it were Psalms 107:12 - and there Ecclesiastes 10:13 - beginning
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he said, if the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee?.... Mistaking her meaning, as if she prayed him to relieve her hunger; the margin of our Bible is, "let not the Lord save thee"; and so some understand it as a wish that she might perish; and so Josephus o, that being wroth, he cursed her in the name of God:
out of the barn floor, or out of the winepress? when neither of them afforded anything; no corn was to be had from the one, nor wine from the other, no, not for his own use, and therefore how could he help her out of either?
o Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 9. c. 4. sect. 4.)
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If the Lord do not help - The translation in the text is decidedly better than the marginal rendering. Some prefer to render - “Nay ... let Jehovah help thee. Whence, shall I help thee?”
Out of the barnfloor ... - The king means that both were empty - that he had no longer any food in store; and therefore could not help the woman. Compare Hosea 9:2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 27. If the Lord do not help thee — Some read this as an imprecation, May God save thee not! how can I save thee?
