And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
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Gill's Exposition
So we boiled my son, and did eat him,.... Thus what was predicted, by way of threatening, began to be accomplished, Deu 28:53; see Gill on Deu 28:53, and of which there were other instances of a like…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
If the Lord do not help thee - Some read this as an imprecation, May God save thee not! how can I save thee?
This last paragraph of this chapter should, of right, have been the first of the next chapter, for it begins a new story, which is there continued and concluded. Here is,
I. The siege which the king…
Cambridge Bible
If the Lord do not help thee There is some difficulty here. The word rendered -if … not" is that which in Hebrew is generally put with an imperative = -Let not". So that the sense would be -May the…
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