2 Kings 6:26

Webster's Bible (1833)

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 14:4 : 4 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
  • Isa 10:3 : 3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
  • Luke 18:3 : 3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'
  • Acts 21:28 : 28 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"

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  • 2 Kgs 6:27-31
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    83%

    27He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?

    28The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

    29So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him; and she has hid her son.

    30It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.

    31Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

  • 2 Sam 20:16
    71%

    16Then cried a wise woman out of the city, "Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'"

  • 2 Kgs 6:24-25
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    71%

    24It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

    25There was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.

  • 1 Kgs 20:39
    71%

    39As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.

  • 2 Kgs 8:5-6
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    5It happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

    6When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

  • 2 Sam 14:4-5
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    4When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

    5The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

  • 1 Kgs 17:10-12
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    10So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

    11As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.

    12She said, As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

  • 2 Sam 14:11-12
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    11Then said she, Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. He said, As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.

    12Then the woman said, Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king. He said, Say on.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
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    1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.

    2Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what have you in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.

  • 2 Sam 14:18-19
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    18Then the king answered the woman, Please don't hide anything from me that I shall ask you. The woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

    19The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
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    15Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

    16For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

  • 2 Kgs 8:3
    69%

    3It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

  • 1 Kgs 17:20
    69%

    20He cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?

  • 2 Kgs 4:13
    69%

    13He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? She answered, I dwell among my own people.

  • 1 Kgs 20:31
    69%

    31His servants said to him, See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, we pray you, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save your life.

  • 2 Kgs 6:9-12
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    69%

    9The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you not pass such a place; for there the Syrians are coming down.

    10The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.

    11The heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said to them, Won't you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?

    12One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.

  • 2 Kgs 4:8-9
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    8It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

    9She said to her husband, See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.

  • 2 Kgs 4:26-27
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    68%

    26please run now to meet her, and ask her, Is it well with you? is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? She answered, It is well.

    27When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and Yahweh has hid it from me, and has not told me.

  • 2 Kgs 7:2
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    2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? He said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.

  • 2 Kgs 6:21
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    21The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I strike them? shall I strike them?

  • 2 Kgs 7:18
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    18It happened, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in 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, Please notice how this man seeks mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him.

  • 2 Kgs 4:22-23
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    22She called to her husband, and said, Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.

    23He said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon nor Sabbath. She said, It shall be well.

  • 1 Kgs 22:32
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    32It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel; and they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.

  • 2 Kgs 7:12
    67%

    12The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.

  • 1 Kgs 20:13
    67%

    13Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, Thus says Yahweh, Have you seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • 2 Kgs 3:10
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    10The king of Israel said, Alas! for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1
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    1Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine; and it shall also come on the land seven years.

  • 1 Sam 28:22
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    22Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way.

  • 2 Chr 18:31
    67%

    31It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.

  • 1 Sam 1:26
    67%

    26She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.