Bible Strands
2 Kings 6:26
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The king of Israel walks along the besieged city wall during a severe famine when a desperate woman cries out to him for aid.
The words — The Hebrew צָעֲקָה (tza'akah) means to cry out loudly, marking the moment the woman’s plea interrupts the king’s patrol.
The thread — A vulnerable person urgently appealing to royal power appears in 2 Samuel 14:4, 2 Kings 6:26, and Luke 18:3, where marginalized figures repeatedly seek intervention from established authority.
Why it lands — The text demands readers examine the distance between a desperate plea and an indifferent leader, requiring a sober accounting of where help actually originates.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
Cross-references
- 2 Samuel 14:4 When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
- Isaiah 10:3 What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
- Luke 18:3 And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
- Acts 21:28 crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”