He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”
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.
Commenting on 2 Kings 6:24-33
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 kind at the siege of Jerusalem, both by Nebuchadnezzar and Vespasian: and I said unto her on the next day; after her child had been wholly ate...
And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? (o) Meaning, any kind of food as corn and wine.