2 Kings 6:26

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As the king of Israel was walking along the city wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help me, my lord the king!"

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  • 2 Sam 14:4 : 4 When the woman from Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, prostrated herself, and said, "Help, O king!"
  • Isa 10:3 : 3 What will you do on the day of punishment, when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?
  • Luke 18:3 : 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him and saying, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'
  • Acts 21:28 : 28 Shouting, 'Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place. And now he has even brought Greeks into the temple, defiling this holy place.'

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  • 2 Kgs 6:27-31
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    27He answered, "If the LORD does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?"

    28Then the king asked her, "What is your problem?" She replied, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

    29So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day, I said to her, 'Give me your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden her son."

    30When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his clothes. As he was walking on the wall, the people saw that he was wearing sackcloth underneath, next to his skin.

    31He said, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!"

  • 2 Sam 20:16
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    16a wise woman called out from the city, "Listen! Listen! Tell Joab to come here so I can speak to him."

  • 2 Kgs 6:24-25
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    24Afterward, Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, gathered his entire army and marched up to lay siege to Samaria.

    25There was a great famine in Samaria, and it lasted until a donkey's head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a quarter of a kab of dove's dung went for five pieces of silver.

  • 1 Kgs 20:39
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    39As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him and said, 'Your servant went into the middle of the battle, and suddenly a man brought another man to me and said, "Guard this man. If he is missing, your life will be for his life, or you will pay a talent of silver."

  • 2 Kgs 8:5-6
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    5As Gehazi was recounting how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had restored came to cry out to the king about her house and her land. Gehazi said, "My lord the king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life!"

    6The king questioned the woman, and she told him her story. Then the king assigned an official to her and said, "Restore everything that belongs to her, as well as all the produce of the field from the day she left the land until now."

  • 2 Sam 14:4-5
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    4When the woman from Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, prostrated herself, and said, "Help, O king!"

    5The king said to her, "What is troubling you?" She replied, "Truly, I am a widow; my husband has died.

  • 1 Kgs 17:10-12
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    10So he arose and went to Zarephath. When he reached the city gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, "Please bring me a little water in a vessel so I may drink."

    11As she was going to fetch it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand as well."

    12But she replied, "As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked. I only have a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a couple of sticks to go and prepare it for myself and my son so we may eat it and then die."

  • 2 Sam 14:11-12
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    11She said, "Let the king swear by the LORD your God that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy and that they will not eliminate my son." The king said, "As surely as the LORD lives, not one hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground."

    12Then the woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Speak."

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
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    1A certain woman, the wife of one of the prophets, cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. Now the creditor has come to take my two sons as slaves."

    2Elisha said to her, "What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?" She replied, "Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of oil."

  • 2 Sam 14:18-19
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    18Then the king said to the woman, "Do not hide anything I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king speak."

    19The king asked, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all of this?" The woman answered, "As surely as you live, my lord the king, it is true. Your servant Joab instructed me and put all these words into the mouth of your servant."

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
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    15Now I have come to speak this word to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, 'I will speak to the king—perhaps the king will grant the request of his servant.

    16For the king will hear me and deliver me from the hand of the man who seeks to destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.'

  • 2 Kgs 8:3
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    3At the end of the seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.

  • 1 Kgs 17:20
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    20Then he cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy upon the widow I am staying with by causing her son to die?"

  • 2 Kgs 4:13
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    13Elisha said to him, "Tell her this: 'You have gone to all this trouble for us. What can be done for you? Should I speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?'" She replied, "I am content to live among my own people."

  • 1 Kgs 20:31
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    31His servants said to him, "We have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life."

  • 2 Kgs 6:9-12
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    9But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: "Be careful not to pass this place, because the Arameans are going down there."

    10So the king of Israel sent word to the place the man of God had warned him about. Over time, he was careful there, not just once or twice.

    11The king of Aram became very upset about this. He called his servants and said to them, "Will you not tell me who among us is on the side of the king of Israel?"

    12One of his servants said, "No, my lord the king; Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom."

  • 2 Kgs 4:8-9
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    8One day, Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he passed by, he would stop there to eat.

    9She said to her husband, "Look, I know that this is a holy man of God who regularly passes by us."

  • 2 Kgs 4:26-27
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    26Now run to meet her and ask her, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?' And she answered, 'Everything is all right.'

    27When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came to push her away, but the man of God said, 'Leave her alone! She is deeply troubled, but the LORD has hidden the reason from me and has not told me.'

  • 2 Kgs 7:2
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    2The officer on whose arm the king was leaning replied to the man of God, "Even if the Lord were to open the floodgates of heaven, could this happen?" Elisha answered, "You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it."

  • 2 Kgs 6:21
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    21When the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, "My father, should I kill them? Should I kill them?"

  • 2 Kgs 7:18
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    18It happened just as the man of God had said to the king: "About this time tomorrow, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel and a seah of fine flour for a shekel at the gate of Samaria."

  • 1 Kgs 20:7
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    7Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, 'See how this man is seeking trouble! He sent for my wives, my sons, my silver, and my gold, and I did not refuse him.'

  • 2 Kgs 4:22-23
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    22She called her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God and come back."

    23He asked, "Why are you going to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath." She replied, "It is well."

  • 1 Kgs 22:32
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    32When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they thought, 'Surely this is the king of Israel.' So they turned to attack him. But Jehoshaphat cried out for help.

  • 2 Kgs 7:12
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    12The king got up in the night and said to his servants, "I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are hungry, so they have gone out of the camp to hide in the countryside, thinking, 'When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and take the city.'"

  • 1 Kgs 20:13
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    13Meanwhile, a prophet approached Ahab, king of Israel, and said, 'This is what the LORD says: Do you see this vast army? I will give it into your hand today, and you will know that I am the LORD.'

  • 2 Kgs 3:10
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    10Then the king of Israel said, "Alas! The LORD has called these three kings together to hand them over to Moab."

  • 2 Kgs 8:1
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    1Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, take your household, and go live in whatever place you can, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years."

  • 1 Sam 28:22
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    22Now please listen to your servant and let me set a piece of bread before you to eat, so you may have strength when you go on your way."

  • 2 Chr 18:31
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    31When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they thought, 'This is the king of Israel!' So they turned to attack him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; God diverted them away from him.

  • 1 Sam 1:26
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    26She said, 'Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.