2 مُلُوك 4
| وَاسْتَغَاثَتْ إِحْدَى نِسَاءِ بَنِي الأَنْبِيَاءِ بِأَلِيشَعَ قَائِلَةً: «عَبْدُكَ زَوْجِي تُوُفِّيَ، وَأَنْتَ تَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَتَّقِي الرَّبَّ، وَقَدْ أَقْبَلَ مُدِينُهُ الْمُرَابِي لِيَأْخُذَ وَلَدَيَّ عَبْدَيْنِ لَهُ مُقَابِلَ دُيُونِهِ». | ١ 1 |
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
| فَسَأَلَهَا أَلِيشَعُ: مَاذَا يُمْكِنُ أَنْ أَصْنَعَ لَكِ؟ أَخْبِرِينِي مَاذَا عِنْدَكِ فِي الْبَيْتِ؟» فَقَالَتْ: «لاَ أَمْلِكُ فِي الْبَيْتِ شَيْئاً سِوَى قَلِيلٍ مِنَ الزَّيْتِ». | ٢ 2 |
“How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
| فَقَالَ لَهَا أَلِيشَعُ: «اذْهَبِي اسْتَعِيرِي أَوَانِيَ فَاِرغَةً مِنْ عِنْدِ جَمِيعِ جِيرَانِكِ وَأَكْثِرِي مِنْهَا. | ٣ 3 |
“Go,” said Elisha, “borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.
| ثُمَّ ادْخُلِي بَيْتَكِ وَأَغْلِقِي الْبَابَ عَلَى نَفْسِكِ وَعَلَى بَنِيكِ، وَصُبِّي زَيْتاً فِي جَمِيعِ هَذِهِ الأَوَانِي، وَانْقُلِي مَا يَمْتَلِئُ مِنْهَا إِلَى جَانِبٍ». | ٤ 4 |
Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these jars, setting the full ones aside.”
| فَمَضَتْ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ وَأَغْلَقَتِ الْبَابَ عَلَى نَفْسِهَا وَعَلَى أَبْنَائِهَا، الَّذِينَ رَاحُوا يُحْضِرُونَ لَهَا الأَوَانِيَ الْفَارِغَةَ فَتَصُبُّ فِيهَا. | ٥ 5 |
So she left him, and after she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing jars to her, and she kept pouring.
| وَحِينَ امْتَلأَتْ جَمِيعُ الأَوَانِي قَالَتْ لاِبْنِهَا: «هَاتِ إِنَاءً آخَرَ». فَأَجَابَهَا: «لَمْ يَبْقَ هُنَاكَ إِنَاءٌ». عِنْدَئِذٍ تَوَقَّفَ تَدَفُّقُ الزَّيْتِ. | ٦ 6 |
When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another.” But he replied, “There are no more jars.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
| فَجَاءَتْ إِلَى رَجُلِ اللهِ وَأَخْبَرَتْهُ. فَقَالَ لَهَا: «اذْهَبِي وَبِيعِي الزَّيْتَ وَأَوْفِي دَيْنَكِ، وَعِيشِي أَنْتِ وَأَبْنَاؤُكِ بِمَا يَتَبَقَّى مِنْ مَالٍ». | ٧ 7 |
She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”
| وَذَاتَ يَوْمٍ ذَهَبَ أَلِيشَعُ إِلَى شُونَمَ حَيْثُ تُقِيمُ امْرَأَةٌ بَالِغَةُ الثَّرَاءِ، فَأَلَحَّتْ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَمْكُثَ لِيَأْكُلَ طَعَاماً. وَكَانَ كُلَّمَا زَارَ شُونَمَ تَسْتَضِيفُهُ فِي مَنْزِلِهَا. | ٨ 8 |
One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.
| فَقَالَتْ لِزَوْجِهَا: «لَقَدْ أَدْرَكْتُ أَنَّ الرَّجُلَ الَّذِي نَسْتَضِيفُهُ دَائِماً هُوَ رَجُلٌ مُقَدَّسٌ لِلهِ، | ٩ 9 |
Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
| فَلْنَبْنِ لَهُ عُلِّيَّةً صَغِيرَةً عَلَى سَطْحِ الْبَيْتِ، وَنُعِدَّ لَهُ فِيهَا سَرِيراً وَطَاوِلَةً وَكُرْسِيّاً وَسِرَاجاً، فَيَبِيتَ فِيهَا كُلَّمَا مَرَّ بِنَا». | ١٠ 10 |
Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”
| وَاتَّفَقَ أَنْ جَاءَ أَلِيشَعُ إِلَى الْعُلِّيَّةِ وَارْتَاحَ فِيهَا. | ١١ 11 |
One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down.
| فَقَالَ لِغُلاَمِهِ جِيحَزِي: «ادْعُ هَذِهِ الشُّونَمِيَّةَ» فَاسْتَدْعَاهَا وَجَاءَتْ. | ١٢ 12 |
And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, she stood before him,
| فَقَالَ لِجِيحَزِي: «قُلْ لَها: لَقَدْ تَكَبَّدْتِ كُلَّ هَذِهِ الْمَشَقَّةِ مِنْ أَجْلِنَا، فَمَاذَا يُمْكِنُ أَنْ أَصْنَعَ لَكِ؟ هَلْ لَدَيْكِ طَلَبٌ أَرْفَعُهُ إِلَى الْمَلِكِ أَوْ إِلَى رَئِيسِ الْجَيْشِ؟» فَأَجَابَتْ: «لاَ. إِنَّنِي رَاضِيَةٌ بِالإِقَامَةِ بَيْنَ شَعْبِي». | ١٣ 13 |
and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
| ثُمَّ تَسَاءَلَ: «مَاذَا يُمْكِنُ أَنْ نَصْنَعَ لَهَا؟» فَأَجَابَهُ جِيحَزِي: «لَيْسَ لَهَا ابْنٌ، وَزَوْجُهَا طَاعِنٌ فِي السِّنِّ». | ١٤ 14 |
So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”
| فَقَالَ أَلِيشَعُ: «اسْتَدْعِهَا». فَدَعَاهَا، فَوَقَفَتْ عِنْدَ الْبَابِ. | ١٥ 15 |
“Call her,” said Elisha. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
| فَقَالَ لَهَا أَلِيشَعُ: «فِي مِثْلِ هَذَا الْوَقْتِ مِنَ السَّنَةِ الْقَادِمَةِ سَتَحْضُنِينَ ابْناً بَيْنَ ذِرَاعَيْكِ». فَقَالَتْ: «لاَ يَاسَيِّدِي رَجُلَ اللهِ. لاَ تَخْدَعْ أَمَتَكَ». | ١٦ 16 |
And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
| وَلَكِنَّهَا حَمَلَتْ وَأَنْجَبَتِ ابْناً فِي الزَّمَنِ الَّذِي أَنْبَأَ بِهِ أَلِيشَعُ. | ١٧ 17 |
But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
| وَكَبُرَ الصَّبِيُّ. وَذَاتَ يَوْمٍ انْطَلَقَ إِلَى حَيْثُ كَانَ أَبُوهُ يُشْرِفُ عَلَى الْحَصَّادِينَ، | ١٨ 18 |
And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.
| وَمَا لَبِثَ أَنْ قَالَ لأَبِيهِ: «رَأْسِي يُؤْلِمُنِي، رَأْسِي». فَقَالَ لأَحَدِ رِجَالِهِ: «احْمِلْهُ إِلَى أُمِّهِ». | ١٩ 19 |
“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
| فَحَمَلَهُ إِلَى أُمِّهِ فَأَجْلَسَتْهُ فِي حِجْرِهَا، وَلَكِنَّهُ مَاتَ عِنْدَ الظُّهْرِ. | ٢٠ 20 |
After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
| فَصَعِدَتْ إِلَى الْعُلِّيَّةِ وَأَرْقَدَتْهُ عَلَى سَرِيرِ رَجُلِ اللهِ، وَأَغْلَقَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْبَابَ ثُمَّ خَرَجَتْ. | ٢١ 21 |
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.
| وَقَالَتْ لِزَوْجِهَا: «ابْعَثْ لِي بِأَحَدِ رِجَالِكَ مَعَ أَتَانٍ لأُهْرَعَ إِلَى رَجُلِ اللهِ ثُمَّ أَرْجِعَ». | ٢٢ 22 |
And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”
| فَسَأَلَهَا: «لِمَاذَا تَذْهَبِينَ إِلَيْهِ الْيَوْمَ، مَعَ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ رَأْسَ الشَّهْرِ وَلاَ سَبْتاً؟» فَأَجَابَتْ: «لِلْخَيْرِ!» | ٢٣ 23 |
“Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.
| وَأَسْرَجَتِ الأَتَانَ وَقَالَتْ لِغُلاَمِهَا: «قُدِ الأَتَانَ وَلاَ تُبْطِئْ فِي السَّيْرِ حِفَاظاً علَى رَاحَتِي حَتَّى أَطْلُبَ مِنْكَ ذَلِكَ». | ٢٤ 24 |
Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
| وَانْطَلَقَتْ حَتَّى أَقْبَلَتْ عَلَى رَجُلِ اللهِ فِي جَبَلِ الْكَرْمَلِ. فَلَمَّا شَاهَدَهَا مِنْ بَعِيدٍ، قَالَ لِغُلاَمِهِ جِيحَزِي: «هَا هِيَ الْمَرْأَةُ الشُّونَمِيَّةُ. | ٢٥ 25 |
So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.
| فَا رْكُضْ لِلِقَائِهَا الآنَ وَاسْأَلْهَا: أَهِيَ بِخَيْرٍ؟ هَلْ زَوْجُهَا سَالِمٌ؟ هَلِ ابْنُهَا سَالِمٌ؟» فَأَجَابَتْ: «كُلُّ شَيْءٍ بِخَيْرٍ». | ٢٦ 26 |
Please run out now to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’” And she answered, “Everything is all right.”
| فَلَمَّا جَاءَتْ إِلَى رَجُلِ اللهِ فِي الْجَبَلِ تَشَبَّثَتْ بِقَدَمَيْهِ. فَاقْتَرَبَ مِنْهَا جِيحَزِي لِيُبْعِدَهَا عَنْهُ، فَقَالَ رَجُلُ اللهِ: «اتْرُكْهَا، فَإِنَّ نَفْسَهَا مَرِيرَةٌ فِي دَاخِلِهَا وَالرَّبُّ لَمْ يَكْشِفْ لِي مَا بِهَا». | ٢٧ 27 |
When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
| فَقَالَتْ: «هَلْ طَلَبْتُ مِنْ سَيِّدِي أَنْ أُنْجِبَ ابْناً؟ أَلَمْ أَقُلْ لاَ تَخْدَعْنِي؟» | ٢٨ 28 |
Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
| فَأَمَرَ أَلِيشَعُ جِيحَزِي: «تَمَنْطَقْ بِحِزَامِكَ، وَخُذْ عُكَّازِي وَانْطَلِقْ. وَإِذَا صَادَفْتَ أَحَداً فَلاَ تُحَيِّهِ، وَإِنْ حَيَّاكَ أَحَدٌ فَلاَ تُجِبْهُ. وَضَعْ عُكَّازِي عَلَى وَجْهِ الصَّبِيِّ». | ٢٩ 29 |
So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
| فَقَالَتْ أُمُّ الصَّبِيِّ: «حَيٌّ هُوَ الرَّبُّ، وَحَيَّةٌ هِيَ نَفْسُكَ إِنَّنِي لاَ أَتْرُكُكَ». فَقَامَ وَتَبِعَهَا. | ٣٠ 30 |
And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
| وَسَبَقَهُمَا جِيحْزِي وَوَضَعَ الْعُكَّازَ عَلَى وَجْهِ الصَّبِيِّ، وَلَكِنْ مِنْ غَيْرِ جَدْوَى فَرَجَعَ لِلِقَاءِ أَلِيشَعَ وَقَالَ: «لَمْ تَرْتَدَّ الْحَيَاةُ إِلَى الصَّبِيِّ». | ٣١ 31 |
Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
| وَدَخَلَ أَلِيشَعُ الْبَيْتَ وَإِذَا بِالصَّبِيِّ مَيْتٌ فِي سَرِيرِهِ. | ٣٢ 32 |
When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.
| فَدَخَلَ الْعُلِّيَّةَ وَأَغْلَقَ الْبَابَ وَتَضَرَّعَ إِلَى الرَّبِّ، | ٣٣ 33 |
So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.
| ثُمَّ اضْطَجَعَ فَوْقَ جُثَّةِ الصَّبِيَّ، وَوَضَعَ فَمَهُ عَلَى فَمِهِ، وَعَيْنَيْهِ عَلَى عَيْنَيْهِ، وَيَدَيْهِ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ، وَتَمَدَّدَ عَلَيْهِ، فَبَدَأَ الدِّفْءُ يَسْرِي فِي جَسَدِ الصَّبِيِّ. | ٣٤ 34 |
Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy’s body became warm.
| فَأَخَذَ النَّبِيُّ يَذْرَعُ أَرْضَ الْعُلِّيَّةِ ثُمَّ عَادَ وَتَمَدَّدَ عَلَى الْوَلَدِ، فَعَطَس هَذَا سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ وَفَتَحَ عَيْنَيْهِ. | ٣٥ 35 |
Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
| فَاسْتَدْعَى جِيحَزِي وَقَالَ: «ادْعُ هَذِهِ الشُّونَمِيَّةَ». وَعِنْدَمَا مَثَلَتْ أَمَامَهُ قَالَ: «احْمِلِي ابْنَكِ!» | ٣٦ 36 |
Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
| فَسَجَدَتْ عَلَى وَجْهِهَا إِلَى الأَرْضِ عِنْدَ قَدَمَيْهِ ثُمَّ حَمَلَتِ ابْنَهَا وَانْصَرَفَتْ. | ٣٧ 37 |
She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.
| وَرَجَعَ أَلِيشَعُ إِلَى الْجِلْجَالِ. بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ عَمَّتِ الْمَجَاعَةُ الْبِلاَدَ. وَفِيمَا كَانَ بَنُو الأَنْبِيَاءِ مُجْتَمِعِينَ مَعَ أَلِيشَعَ، قَالَ لِخَادِمِهِ: «اسْلُقْ بَعْضَ السَّلِيقَةِ فِي الْقِدْرِ الْكَبِيرَةِ لِبَنِي الأَنْبِيَاءِ». | ٣٨ 38 |
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
| وَانْطَلَقَ وَاحِدٌ مِنْهُمْ لِيَلْتَقِطَ بَعْضَ الْخُضْرَوَاتِ، فَعَثَرَ عَلَى يَقْطِينٍ بَرِّيٍّ سَامٍّ، فَالْتَقَطَ مِنْهُ مِلْءَ ثَوْبِهِ، وَقَطَّعَهُ وَطَرَحَهُ فِي قِدْرِ السَّلِيقَةِ، غَيْرَ عَالِمٍ أَنَّهُ سَامٌّ. | ٣٩ 39 |
One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
| وَصَبُّوا لِلْقَوْمِ لِيَأْكُلُوا، وَلَكِنْ مَا إِنْ تَنَاوَلُوا مِنْهُ حَتَّى صَرَخُوا: «فِي الْقِدْرِ سُمٌّ يَارَجُلَ اللهِ». وَلَمْ يَسْتطِيعُوا الأَكْلَ. | ٤٠ 40 |
And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.
| فَقَالَ: «هَاتُوا دَقِيقاً» وَأَلْقَى أَلِيشَعُ الدَّقِيقَ فِي الْقِدْرِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: «صُبَّ لِلْقَوْمِ لِيَأْكُلُوا». فَأَقْبَلُوا عَلَى الطَّعَامِ وَكَأَنَّهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْءٌ مُؤْذٍ فِي الْقِدْرِ. | ٤١ 41 |
Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
| وَحَضَرَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَعْلِ شَلِيشَةَ حَامِلاً مَعَهُ لِرَجُلِ اللهِ عِشْرِينَ رَغِيفاً مِنَ الشَّعِيرِ، مِنْ أَوَائِلِ الْحَصَادِ وَسَوِيقاً فِي جِرَابِهِ. فَقَالَ: «أَعْطِ الرِّجَالَ لِيَأْكُلُوا». | ٤٢ 42 |
Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
| فَقَالَ خَادِمُهُ: «مَاذَا؟ هَلْ أَضَعُ هَذَا أَمَامَ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ؟» فَقَالَ أَلِيشَعُ: «أَعْطِ الرِّجَالَ لِيَأْكُلُوا، لأَنَّهُ هَذَا مَا يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ: إِنَّهُمْ يَأْكُلُونَ مِنْهَا وَيَفْضُلُ عَنْهُمْ». | ٤٣ 43 |
But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”
| فَوَضَعَهَا أَمَامَهُمْ فَأَكَلُوا، وَفَضَلَ عَنْهُمْ حَسَبَ قَوْلِ الرَّبِّ. | ٤٤ 44 |
So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.
