2 Kings

找回斧子的头

1先知门徒对以利沙说：「看哪，我们同你所住的地方过于窄小，

2求你容我们往约旦河去，各人从那里取一根木料建造房屋居住。」他说：「你们去吧！」

3有一人说：「求你与仆人同去。」回答说：「我可以去。」

4于是以利沙与他们同去。到了约旦河，就砍伐树木。

5有一人砍树的时候，斧头掉在水里，他就呼叫说：「哀哉！我主啊，这斧子是借的。」

6神人问说：「掉在哪里了？」他将那地方指给以利沙看。以利沙砍了一根木头，抛在水里，斧头就漂上来了。

7以利沙说：「拿起来吧！」那人就伸手拿起来了。

亚兰军败于以色列人

8亚兰王与以色列人争战，和他的臣仆商议说：「我要在某处某处安营。」

9神人打发人去见以色列王，说：「你要谨慎，不要从某处经过，因为亚兰人从那里下来了。」

10以色列王差人去窥探神人所告诉所警戒他去的地方，就防备未受其害，不止一两次。

11亚兰王因这事心里惊疑，召了臣仆来，对他们说：「我们这里有谁帮助以色列王，你们不指给我吗？」

12有一个臣仆说：「我主，我王！无人帮助他，只有以色列中的先知以利沙，将王在卧房所说的话告诉以色列王了。」

13王说：「你们去探他在哪里，我好打发人去捉拿他。」有人告诉王说：「他在多坍。」

14王就打发车马和大军往那里去，夜间到了，围困那城。

15神人的仆人清早起来出去，看见车马军兵围困了城。仆人对神人说：「哀哉！我主啊，我们怎样行才好呢？」

16神人说：「不要惧怕！与我们同在的比与他们同在的更多。」

17以利沙祷告说：「耶和华啊，求你开这少年人的眼目，使他能看见。」耶和华开他的眼目，他就看见满山有火车火马围绕以利沙。

18敌人下到以利沙那里，以利沙祷告耶和华说：「求你使这些人的眼目昏迷。」耶和华就照以利沙的话，使他们的眼目昏迷。

19以利沙对他们说：「这不是那道，也不是那城；你们跟我去，我必领你们到所寻找的人那里。」于是领他们到了撒马利亚。

20他们进了撒马利亚，以利沙祷告说：「耶和华啊，求你开这些人的眼目，使他们能看见。」耶和华开他们的眼目，他们就看见了，不料，是在撒马利亚的城中。

21以色列王见了他们，就问以利沙说：「我父啊，我可以击杀他们吗？」

22回答说：「不可击杀他们！就是你用刀用弓掳来的，岂可击杀他们吗？当在他们面前设摆饮食，使他们吃喝回到他们的主人那里。」

23王就为他们预备了许多食物；他们吃喝完了，打发他们回到他们主人那里。从此，亚兰军不再犯以色列境了。

围困撒马利亚

24此后，亚兰王便·哈达聚集他的全军，上来围困撒马利亚。

25于是撒马利亚被围困，有饥荒，甚至一个驴头值银八十舍客勒，二升鸽子粪值银五舍客勒。

26一日，以色列王在城上经过，有一个妇人向他呼叫说：「我主，我王啊！求你帮助。」

27王说：「耶和华不帮助你，我从何处帮助你？是从禾场，是从酒榨呢？」

28王问妇人说：「你有什么苦处？」她回答说：「这妇人对我说：『将你的儿子取来，我们今日可以吃，明日可以吃我的儿子。』

29我们就煮了我的儿子吃了。次日我对她说：『要将你的儿子取来，我们可以吃。』她却将她的儿子藏起来了。」

30王听见妇人的话，就撕裂衣服；（王在城上经过）百姓看见王贴身穿着麻衣。

31王说：「我今日若容沙法的儿子以利沙的头仍在他项上，愿 神重重地降罚与我！」

32那时，以利沙正坐在家中，长老也与他同坐。王打发一个伺候他的人去；他还没有到，以利沙对长老说：「你们看这凶手之子，打发人来斩我的头；你们看着使者来到，就关上门，用门将他推出去。在他后头不是有他主人脚步的响声吗？」

33正说话的时候，使者来到，王也到了，说：「这灾祸是从耶和华那里来的，我何必再仰望耶和华呢？」

1And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus: Behold the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

2Let us go as far as the Jordan and take out of the wood every man a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And he said: Go.

3And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He answered: I will come.

4So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan they cut down wood.

5And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of the axe fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, for this same was borrowed.

6And the man of God said: Where did it fall? and he shewed him the place. Then he cut off a piece of wood, and cast it in thither: and the iron swam.

7And he said: Take it up. And he put out his hand and took it.

8And the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying: In such and such a place let us lay ambushes.

9And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that thou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush.

10And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God had told him, and prevented him, and looked well to himself there not once nor twice.

11And the heart of the king of Syria was troubled for this thing. And calling together his servants, he said: Why do you not tell me who it is that betrays me to the king of Israel?

12And one of his servants said: No one, my lord O king: but Eliseus the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all the words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.

13And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may send, and take him. And they told him, saying: Behold he is in Dothan.

14Therefore he sent thither horses and chariots, and the strength of an army: and they came by night, and beset the city.

15And the servant of the man of God rising early, went out, and saw an army round about the city, and horses and chariots: and he told him, saying: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, what shall we do?

16But he answered: Fear not: for there are more with us than with them.

17And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw: and behold the mountain was full of horses, and chariots of fire round about Eliseus.

18And the enemies came down to him, but Eliseus prayed to the Lord, saying: Strike, I beseech thee, this people with blindness. And the Lord struck them with blindness, according to the word of Eliseus.

19And Eliseus said to them: This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will shew you the man whom you seek. So he led them into Samaria.

20And when they were come into Samaria, Eliseus said: Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw themselves to be in the midst of Samaria.

21And the king of Israel said to Eliseus, when he saw them: My father, shall I kill them?

22And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for thou didst not take them with thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst kill them: but set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

23And a great provision of meats was set before them, and they ate and drank, and he let them go, and they went away to their master, and the robbers of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

24And it came to pass after these things, that Benadad king of Syria gathered together all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

25And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeon’s dung, for five pieces of silver.

26And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord O king.

27And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her: What aileth thee? And she answered:

28This woman said to me: Give thy 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 thy son that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.

30When the king heard this, he rent his garments, and passed by upon the wall. And all the people saw the haircloth which he wore within next to his flesh.

31And the king said: May God do so and so to me, and may he add more, if the head of Eliseus the son of Saphat shall stand on him this day.

32But Eliseus sat in his house, and the ancients sat with him. So he sent a man before: and before that messenger came, he said to the ancients: Do you know that this son of a murderer hath sent to cut off my head? Look then, when the messenger shall come, shut the door, and suffer him not to come in: for behold the sound of his master’s feet is behind him.

33While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared who was coming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the Lord: what shall I look for more from the Lord?