27And 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. …
A Song of degrees of David. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; …
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-33)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 of Syria laid to Samaria and the great distress which the city was reduced to thereby. The Syrians had soon forgotten the kindnesses they had lately received in Samaria, and very ungratefully, for augh…
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