2 Kings 4

1 One day the widow of one of [Yahweh’s] prophets came to Elisha and cried out to him, “My husband, who worked with you, is dead. You know that he revered Yahweh [very much]. But now a man to whom he owed a lot of money has come to me. [And because I cannot pay back the money, he is threatening] to take away my two sons to be his slaves [as payment for what I owe him]!”

روزی بیوهٔ یکی از مردان گروه انبیا نزد الیشع آمده، با التماس گفت: «شوهرم مرده است. همان‌طور که می‌دانید او مرد خداترسی بود. وقتی مرد، مبلغی قرض داشت. حالا طلبکار پولش را می‌خواهد و می‌گوید که اگر قرضم را ندهم دو پسرم را غلام خود می‌کند و با خود می‌برد.»

2 Elisha replied, “What can I do to help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” She replied, “We have only a container of [olive] oil; we have nothing else.”

الیشع پرسید: «چه کاری می‌توانم برایت بکنم؟ در منزل چه داری؟» زن جواب داد: «جز کوزه‌های روغن زیتون چیزی ندارم.»

3 Elisha said, “Go to your neighbors and borrow from them as many empty jars as you can.

الیشع به او گفت: «پس برو و تا آنجا که می‌توانی از همسایگانت کوزه‌های خالی جمع کن.

4 Then take the jars into your house with your sons. Shut the door. Then pour olive oil from your container into the other jars. When each jar is full, set it aside [and fill another jar. Keep doing that until all the jars are full].”

سپس با دو پسرت به خانه برو و در را از پشت ببند. آنگاه از آن روغن زیتون در تمام کوزه‌ها بریز. وقتی پر شدند آنها را یکی‌یکی کنار بگذار.»

5 [So she did what Elisha told her to do]. Her sons kept bringing jars to her, and she kept filling them.

پس آن زن چنین کرد. پسرانش کوزه‌ها را می‌آوردند و او هم آنها را یکی پس از دیگری پر می‌کرد.

6 Soon all the jars were full. So she said to one of her sons, “Bring me another jar!” But he replied, “There are no more jars!” And then the olive oil stopped flowing.

طولی نکشید که تمام کوزه‌ها پر شدند. زن گفت: «باز هم بیاورید.» یکی از پسرانش جواب داد: «دیگر ظرفی نمانده است.» آنگاه روغن قطع شد.

7 When she told Elijah [what had happened], he said to her, “Now sell the jars of oil. And [with the money you get, ] pay what you owe, and there will be enough extra money to keep buying food for yourself and your sons.” [So she did that].

زن رفت و موضوع را برای الیشع تعریف کرد. الیشع به او گفت: «برو روغن را بفروش و قرضت را پس بده و پول کافی برای امرار معاش خود و پسرانت نیز باقی خواهد ماند.»

8 One day Elisha went to Shunem [town]. There was a wealthy woman who lived there [with her husband]. One day she invited Elisha to her house for a meal. [Elisha went there and] from then on, every time Elisha was in Shunem, he went to their house to eat a meal.

روزی الیشع به شهر شونیم رفت. زن سرشناسی از اهالی شهر به اصرار او را برای صرف غذا به خانه‌اش دعوت کرد. از آن پس، الیشع هر وقت گذرش به آن شهر می‌افتاد، برای صرف غذا به خانهٔ او می‌رفت.

9 One day the woman said to her husband, “I am sure that this man who often comes here is a prophet [who brings messages] from God.

آن زن به شوهرش گفت: «مطمئن هستم این مردی که اغلب به خانهٔ ما می‌آید، نبی و مرد مقدّسی است.

10 I think we should make a small room for him on our [flat] roof, and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp in it. If we do that, whenever he comes here, he will have a place to stay.” [So they did that].

بیا روی پشت بام اتاقی کوچک برایش بسازیم و در آن تختخواب و میز و صندلی و چراغ بگذاریم تا هر وقت بیاید در آن استراحت کند.»

11 One day Elisha returned to Shunem, and he went up to that room to rest.

یک روز که الیشع به شونیم آمده، در آن اتاق استراحت می‌کرد، به خادمش جیحزی گفت: «زن صاحب خانه را صدا بزن تا با او صحبت کنم.» وقتی زن آمد

12 He said to his servant Gehazi, “Tell the woman that I want to speak to her.” [So the servant went and told her]. When she came [to the doorway of Elisha’s room],

13 Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her that we both appreciate all the kind things that she has done for us. Then ask her what we can do for her. Ask, ‘Do you want [me to go to] the king or the army commander, to request something for you?’” [Gehazi told her, ] and she replied, “No, [he does not need to do that, because] my family/relatives are able to give me what I need.”

الیشع به جیحزی گفت: «از او بپرس برای جبران زحماتی که برای ما کشیده است چه کاری می‌توانیم برایش بکنیم؟ آیا می‌خواهد که من سفارش او را به پادشاه یا فرماندهٔ سپاه بکنم؟» زن گفت: «من در میان اقوام خود زندگی می‌کنم و به چیزی احتیاج ندارم.»

14 [Later, ] Elisha asked Gehazi, “What do you think that we can do for that woman?” He replied, “She does not have a son, and her husband is an old man. [So maybe we should ask Yahweh to enable her to have a son].”

الیشع از جیحزی پرسید: «پس برای این زن چه باید کرد؟» جیحزی گفت: «او پسری ندارد و شوهرش نیز پیر است.»

15 Elisha told Gehazi, “Call her back again.” [So Gehazi went and called her]. And when the woman returned, as she stood in the doorway,

الیشع گفت: «پس او را دوباره صدا کن.» آن زن برگشت و کنار در ایستاد. الیشع به او گفت: «سال دیگر همین وقت صاحب پسری خواهی شد.» زن گفت: «ای سرور من، ای مرد خدا، کنیزت را فریب نده و بی‌جهت امیدوارم نکن!»

16 Elisha said to her, “About this time next year you will be holding your [infant] son in your arms.” But she protested, “O, sir, you are a prophet [who brings messages] from God, so please do not deceive/lie to me by saying things like that!”

17 But a few months later, the woman became pregnant, and she gave birth to a son at that time the following year, just like Elisha had predicted.

اما بعد از چندی آن زن طبق کلام الیشع آبستن شد و پسری به دنیا آورد.

18 When the child was older, one day he went out to the fields to see his father, who was [working] with the men who were harvesting [grain].

پسر بزرگ شد. یک روز نزد پدرش که با دروگران کار می‌کرد، رفت.

19 [Suddenly] the boy exclaimed, “My head [hurts]! My head [hurts a lot]!” His father said to one of the servants, “Carry him home to his mother!”

در آنجا ناگهان فریاد زد: «آخ سرم، آخ سرم!» پدرش به خادمش گفت: «او را به خانه نزد مادرش ببر.»

20 So the servant carried him home, and his mother held him on her lap. But at noontime the boy died.

آن خادم او را به خانه برد و مادرش او را در آغوش گرفت. ولی نزدیک ظهر آن پسر مرد.

21 She carried him up [the steps] to the prophet’s room and laid him on the bed. She left him there and went out and shut the door.

مادرش او را برداشت و به اتاق الیشع برد و جسد او را روی تختخواب گذاشت و در را بست.

22 She then called out to her husband, saying, “Send to me one of the servants and a donkey, so that I can ride [on it] quickly to the prophet, and then come back!” [But she did not tell her husband that their son had died].

سپس برای شوهرش این پیغام را فرستاد: «خواهش می‌کنم یکی از خادمانت را با الاغی بفرست تا نزد آن مرد خدا بروم. زود برمی‌گردم.»

23 Her husband [called out to her and] said, “Why [do you want to go] today? This is not the day when we celebrate the Festival of the New Moon, and it is not a Sabbath day!” But she only replied, “[Just do what I requested and] everything will be all right.”

شوهرش گفت: «چرا می‌خواهی پیش او بروی؟ امروز که اول ماه یا روز شَبّات نیست.» اما زن گفت: «خیر است.»

24 So she [told the servant to] put saddles on [two] donkeys, and as they left, she said, “Hurry! Do not slow down unless t tell you to do that!”

پس زن الاغ را زین کرد و به خادمش گفت: «عجله کن! الاغ را تند بران و تا وقتی من نگفتم، نایست.»

25 As they approached Carmel Mountain, where Elisha was, Elisha saw her in the distance. He said to Gehazi, “Look, the woman from Shunem is coming!

وقتی به کوه کرمل رسید، الیشع او را از دور دید و به جیحزی گفت: «ببین! او همان زن شونَمی است که می‌آید.

26 Run to her, and ask her if everything is all right with her and her husband and with her child!” [So Gehazi ran to her and asked her, but she did not tell Gehazi anything.] She only said, “Yes, everything is fine.”

به استقبالش برو و بپرس چه شده است. ببین آیا شوهر و پسرش سالم هستند.» زن به جیحزی گفت: «بله، همه سالمند.»

27 But when she came to where Elisha was, she [prostrated herself on the ground in front of Elisha and] took hold of his feet. Gehazi started to push her away, but Elisha said, “(Do not push her away/Leave her alone)! Something is troubling her very much, but Yahweh has not told me what it is.”

اما وقتی به بالای کوه نزد الیشع رسید در حضور او به خاک افتاد و به پایش چسبید. جیحزی سعی کرد او را عقب بکشد، ولی الیشع گفت: «با او کاری نداشته باش. او سخت غصه‌دار است، اما خداوند در این مورد چیزی به من نگفته است.»

28 Then she said to Elisha, “O, sir, I did not ask you to enable me to give birth to a son [RHQ]. And I told you not to lie to me about that!” [RHQ]

زن گفت: «این تو بودی که گفتی من صاحب پسری می‌شوم و من به تو التماس کردم که مرا فریب ندهی!»

29 Then Elisha [realized that something must have happened to her son. So he] said to Gehazi, “Get ready [to leave immediately]. Take my staff/walking stick and go [to her home]. Do not [stop to] talk to anyone on the way. Go quickly [to where her son is] and lay the staff on the child’s face. [If you do that, perhaps Yahweh will enable him to be well].”

الیشع به جیحزی گفت: «زود باش، عصای مرا بردار و راه بیفت! در راه با هیچ‌کس حرف نزن، عجله کن! وقتی به آنجا رسیدی عصا را روی صورت پسر بگذار.»

30 But the boy’s mother said, “Just [as certain] as Yahweh lives and you live, I will not go home if you do not go with me.” So Elisha returned with her [to her home].

ولی آن زن گفت: «به خداوند زنده و به جان تو قسم، من بدون تو به خانه باز نمی‌گردم.» پس الیشع همراه او رفت.

31 Gehazi hurried quickly, and [when he got to the woman’s home, ] he laid the staff/walking stick on the child’s face, but the child did not move or say anything. So Gehazi returned to meet Elisha [along the road], and told him, “The child is still dead.”

جیحزی جلوتر از ایشان حرکت کرده، رفت و عصا را روی صورت پسر گذاشت، ولی هیچ اتفاقی نیفتاد و هیچ اثری از حیات در پسر دیده نشد. پس نزد الیشع بازگشت و گفت: «پسر زنده نشد.»

32 When Elisha reached the house, he saw that the boy was lying dead on his bed.

وقتی الیشع آمد و دید پسر مرده روی رختخوابش است،

33 Elisha went into the room by himself and shut the door and prayed to Yahweh.

به تنهایی داخل اتاق شد و در را از پشت بست و نزد خداوند دعا کرد.

34 Then he lay down on the boy’s body, and put his mouth on the boy’s mouth, and put his eyes on the boy’s eyes, and put his hands on the boy’s hands. Then the boy’s body started to become warm!

سپس روی جسد پسر دراز کشید و دهان خود را بر دهان او، چشم خود را روی چشم او، و دست خود را بر دستش گذاشت تا بدن پسر گرم شد.

35 Elisha got up and walked back and forth in the room [several times]. Then he stretched his body on the boy’s body again. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes!

الیشع برخاست و چند بار در اتاق از این سو به آن سو قدم زد و باز روی جسد پسر دراز کشید. این بار پسر هفت بار عطسه کرد و چشمانش را گشود.

36 Then Elisha summoned Gehazi. He said, “Call the boy’s mother!” [So Gehazi went and called her, ] and when she came in, Elisha said, “Here, take your son!”

الیشع، جیحزی را صدا زد و گفت: «مادر پسر را صدا بزن.» وقتی او وارد شد، الیشع گفت: «پسرت را بردار!»

37 She [gratefully] prostrated herself at Elisha’s feet. Then she picked up her son and carried him downstairs.

زن به پاهای الیشع افتاد و بعد پسر خود را برداشت و بیرون رفت.

38 Then Elisha returned to Gilgal. But at that time there was (a famine/very little food) in that area. One day as the group of prophets was sitting in front of Elisha [listening to what he was teaching], he said to his servant, “Put a large pot on [the stove] and make some stew for these men.”

الیشع به جلجال بازگشت. در آنجا قحطی بود. یک روز که گروه انبیا نزد الیشع جمع شده بودند، او به خادمش گفت: «دیگ بزرگی بردار و برای انبیا آش بپز.»

39 One of the prophets went out to the fields to gather some vegetables. But he gathered [only] some wild gourds and put them in his cloak and brought them back. He shredded them and put them in the pot, but he did not know that the gourds were poisonous.

یکی از انبیا به صحرا رفت تا سبزی بچیند. او مقداری کدوی صحرایی با خود آورد و بدون آنکه بداند سمی هستند آنها را خرد کرده، داخل دیگ ریخت.

40 He served the stew to the prophets, but after the men had eaten only a couple bites, they cried out, “Elisha, there is something in the pot that will kill us!” So they would not eat it.

هنگام صرف آش، وقتی از آن کمی چشیدند، فریاد برآورده، به الیشع گفتند: «ای مرد خدا، داخل این آش سم است!» پس نتوانستند آن را بخورند.

41 Elisha said, “Bring me some flour.” [They brought him some, and] he threw it in the pot and he said, “It is all right now. You can eat it.” And they ate it, and it did not harm them.

الیشع گفت: «مقداری آرد بیاورید.» آرد را داخل آش ریخت و گفت: «حالا بکشید و بخورید.» آش دیگر سمی نبود.

42 One day a man from Baal-Shalishah [town] brought to Elisha a sack of freshly cut grain and 20 loaves of barley bread, made from the first grain that they harvested [that year]. Elisha said [to his servant], “Give it to the group of prophets, so that they can eat it.”

یک روز مردی از بعل شلیشه یک کیسه غلهٔ تازه و بیست نان جو از نوبر محصول خود برای الیشع آورد. الیشع به خادمش گفت: «اینها را به گروه انبیا بده تا بخورند.»

43 But his servant exclaimed, “Do you think that we can feed 100 of us prophets with only that much?” [RHQ] But Elisha replied, “Give it to the prophets so that they can eat it, because Yahweh says that there will be plenty for all of them, and there will be some left over!”

خادمش با تعجب گفت: «چطور می‌شود شکم صد نفر را با این خوراک سیر کرد؟» ولی الیشع گفت: «بده بخورند، زیرا خداوند می‌فرماید همه سیر می‌شوند و مقداری هم باقی می‌ماند!»

44 After his servant gave it to the prophets, they ate [all that they wanted], and there was food left over, just as Yahweh had promised.

پس نان را پیش آنها گذاشت و همان‌گونه که خداوند فرموده بود، همه سیر شدند و مقداری هم باقی ماند.