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A ka mea a Eriha, Whakarongo ki te kupu a Ihowa: ko te kupu tenei a Ihowa, Kia penei apopo ka hokona he mehua paraoa mo te hekere, nga mehua parei e rua mo te hekere, i te kuwaha o Hamaria.

Na ka whakahokia e tetahi rangatira, nona nei te ringa i okioki ai te kingi, ki te tangata a te Atua; i mea ia, Nana, ki te hanga e Ihowa he matapihi ki te rangi, ka rite ranei tenei kupu? Ano ra ko ia, Nana, tera ou kanohi e kite, otira e kore k oe e kai i tetahi wahi o taua mea.

Na tera etahi tangata tokowha, he repera, i te kuwaha o te keti: a ka mea ratou tetahi ki tetahi, He aha tatou i noho ai i konei a kia mate raano tatou?

Ki te mea tatou, Tatou ka tomo ki te pa, na ko te matekai kei roto i te pa, a ka mate tatou ki reira: a, ki te noho tatou i konei, ka mate ano tatou. Na, kia haere tatou aianei, kia auraki atu ki te ope o nga Hiriani: ki te whakaorangia tatou e r atou, ka ora tatou: ki te whakamatea, heoi ano, ka mate.

Na maranga ana ratou i te mea ka kakarauri, haere ana ki te puni o nga Hiriani: a, no to ratou taenga ki te pito o te puni o nga Hiriani, na kahore o reira tangata.

Na te Ariki hoki i mea kia rongo te ope o nga Hiriani i te haruru hariata, i te haruru hoiho, i te haruru hoki o tetahi ope nui: a ka mea ratou tetahi ki tetahi, Nana, kua utua nga kingi o nga Hiti me nga kingi o nga Ihipiana e te kingi o Iharair a hei whawhai ki a tatou, kia huaki mai ki a tatou.

Na whakatika ana ratou, rere ana i te mea ka kakarauri, a whakarerea ake o ratou teneti, a ratou hoiho, a ratou kaihe, me nga aha noa o te puni, a rere ana, he wehi kei mate.

Na, i te taenga o aua repera ki te pito o te puni, ka tomo ki tetahi teneti, kei te kai, kei te inu, a mauria atu ana te hiriwa i reira, me te koura, me te kakahu, a haere ana, huna ana; na ka hoki ano, ka tomo ki tetahi atu teneti, a ka tango an o i reira, a haere ana, huna ana.

Na ka mea ratou tetahi ki tetahi, Kahore i te pai ta tatou e mea nei: he ra rongo pai tenei ra, a kei te noho wahangu tatou: ki te tatari tatou kia marama te ata, tera tatou e rokohanga e te he: na reira hoake, ka haere tatou, ka korero ki te wha re o te kingi.

10 Heoi haere ana ratou, karanga ana ki te kaitiaki o te kuwaha o te pa: a ka whakaatu ki a ratou, ka mea, I tae matou ki te puni o nga Hiriani, na kahore he tangata o reira, kahore he reo tangata, engari ko nga hoiho anake e here ana, me nga kaihe e here ana, a ko nga teneti e tu ana ano.

11 Na karangatia ana e ia nga kaitiaki o te kuwaha; a na ratou i korero ki te whare o te kingi i roto atu.

12 Na ka whakatika te kingi i te po, a ka mea ki ana tangata, Maku e whakaatu ki a koutou ta nga Hiriani i mea ai ki a tatou. E mohio ana ratou e mate ana tatou i te kai; koia ratou i haere atu ai i te puni ki te parae piri ai, e ki ana, Ki te puta mai ratou i te pa, ka hopukia oratia ratou e tatou, a ka uru tatou ki te pa.

13 Na ka whakahoki tetahi o ana tangata, ka mea, Tangohia oti e etahi kia rima o nga hoiho e toe nei, i mahue nei ki te pa; nana, penei tonu ratou me te huihui katoa o Iharaira kua mahue nei ki konei; nana, rite tonu ratou ki te huihui katoa o Ihar aira kua moti nei: a tonoa atu ratou e tatou kia kite.

14 Na tangohia ana e ratou etahi hoiho hariata, e rua, a unga ana e te kingi ki te whai i te ope o nga Hiriani, a i mea ia, Tikina, tirohia.

15 Na haere ana ratou ki te whai i a ratou a Horano ra ano. Na kapi tonu te huarahi katoa i te kakahu, i nga mea i rukea atu e nga Hiriani i to ratou ponana. Na hoki ana aua tangata ki te korero ki te kingi.

16 Na ka puta te iwi ki waho, kei te pahua i te puni o nga Hiriani. Heoi hokona ana te mehua paraoa mo te hekere, me nga mehua parei e rua mo te hekere, i rite tonu ki ta Ihowa kupu.

17 A i whakaritea e te kingi ko te rangatira i okioki atu nei ia ki tona ringa hei rangatira mo te kuwaha: na takahia iho ia e te iwi ki te kuwaha, a mate ake, i rite tonu ki ta te tangata a te Atua i korero ai, ki tana i korero ra i te haerenga ih o o te kingi ki raro, ki a ia.

18 I rite tonu ano ki ta te tangata a te Atua i korero ai ki te kingi, i mea ai, E rua nga mehua parei mo te hekere, kotahi ano hoki mehua paraoa mo te hekere i te kuwaha o Hamaria i te wa penei apopo;

19 Na ka utua e taua rangatira ki te tangata a te Atua, i mea ia, Nana, ki te hanga e Ihowa he matapihi ki te rangi, ka rite ranei tenei kupu? Na ka mea tera, Nana, tera ou kanohi na e kite; otiia e kore tetahi wahi o taua mea e kainga e koe;

20 I pera tonu te meatanga ki a ia; i takahia hoki ia e te iwi ki te kuwaha, a mate iho ia.

以利沙说:“你们要听耶和华的话,耶和华说,‘明天这个时候,在撒玛利亚城门口,三公斤细面粉只卖十一克银子,六公斤大麦也卖十一克银子。’” 一个搀扶王的将领对上帝的仆人说:“即使耶和华打开天上的窗户,也不可能发生这样的事!”以利沙说:“你必亲眼看见,却吃不到。”

撒玛利亚城获救

城门口有四个麻风病人,他们商量说:“我们为什么坐在这里等死呢? 如果我们进城,城里正闹饥荒,我们会饿死;但我们坐在这里也是死,不如去投靠亚兰军。如果他们不杀我们,我们就能活命;如若不然,死就死吧!” 傍晚时分,他们动身去亚兰人的营地,到了营地外边,却发现人影全无。 原来,主使亚兰人听见大队人马和战车的声音。他们以为以色列王雇用了赫人的诸王和埃及人的诸王来攻营, 便在傍晚时分撇下帐篷、马和驴,弃营而逃。 那几个麻风病人到了营地,走进一个帐篷,又吃又喝,把那里的金银和衣服拿走收藏起来,再回来进入另一个帐篷,把财物拿走收藏起来。

后来,他们彼此说:“我们这样做不对。今天是个报好消息的日子,我们却不作声。若等到天亮,我们会受惩罚的。走,我们给王报信去。” 10 他们就去喊城门守卫,对他们说:“我们到了亚兰人的营中,里面不见人影也没有人声,只有拴着的马和驴,帐篷依然在那里。” 11 城门守卫就高声宣告消息,有人去禀告王。 12 王连夜起来,对臣仆说:“我告诉你们是怎么回事。亚兰人知道我们正闹饥荒,就故意离开军营,埋伏在田野,等我们以色列人出城后,好活捉我们,并攻入城中。”

13 一个臣仆说:“不如派人骑着城中仅存的五匹马出去打探一下。反正他们和城中剩下的以色列人一样快要死了。” 14 他们预备了两辆马车,王便命人出去追踪亚兰军、查明实情。 15 探子一路追到约旦河,沿路看见到处都是亚兰军仓皇逃走时丢弃的衣服和装备,便回去禀告王。 16 于是,民众出城抢掠亚兰人的营地。那时,三公斤细面粉只卖十一克银子,六公斤大麦也只卖十一克银子,正如耶和华所言。 17 王派那位搀扶他的将领守在城门口维持秩序,那将领却被涌出的人群踩死,应验了上帝的仆人在王去见他时所说的话。 18 上帝的仆人曾对王说:“明天这个时候,在撒玛利亚城门口,三公斤细面粉只卖十一克银子,六公斤大麦也只卖十一克银子。”

19 但那将领对上帝的仆人说:“即使耶和华打开天上的窗户,也不可能发生这样的事!”上帝的仆人说:“你必亲眼看见,却吃不到。” 20 这话果然应验在他身上,他被人群踩死在城门口。

Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Lord says: About this time tomorrow, a seah[a] of the finest flour will sell for a shekel[b] and two seahs[c] of barley for a shekel(A) at the gate of Samaria.”

The officer on whose arm the king was leaning(B) said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates(C) of the heavens, could this happen?”

“You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat(D) any of it!”

The Siege Lifted

Now there were four men with leprosy[d](E) at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”

At dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Arameans. When they reached the edge of the camp, no one was there, for the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound(F) of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired(G) the Hittite(H) and Egyptian kings to attack us!” So they got up and fled(I) in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

The men who had leprosy(J) reached the edge of the camp, entered one of the tents and ate and drank. Then they took silver, gold and clothes, and went off and hid them. They returned and entered another tent and took some things from it and hid them also.

Then they said to each other, “What we’re doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.”

10 So they went and called out to the city gatekeepers and told them, “We went into the Aramean camp and no one was there—not a sound of anyone—only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents left just as they were.” 11 The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported within the palace.

12 The king got up in the night and said to his officers, “I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide(K) in the countryside, thinking, ‘They will surely come out, and then we will take them alive and get into the city.’”

13 One of his officers answered, “Have some men take five of the horses that are left in the city. Their plight will be like that of all the Israelites left here—yes, they will only be like all these Israelites who are doomed. So let us send them to find out what happened.”

14 So they selected two chariots with their horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army. He commanded the drivers, “Go and find out what has happened.” 15 They followed them as far as the Jordan, and they found the whole road strewn with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown away in their headlong flight.(L) So the messengers returned and reported to the king. 16 Then the people went out and plundered(M) the camp of the Arameans. So a seah of the finest flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel,(N) as the Lord had said.

17 Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died,(O) just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house. 18 It happened as the man of God had said to the king: “About this time tomorrow, a seah of the finest flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.”

19 The officer had said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates(P) of the heavens, could this happen?” The man of God had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!” 20 And that is exactly what happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 7:1 That is, probably about 12 pounds or about 5.5 kilograms of flour; also in verses 16 and 18
  2. 2 Kings 7:1 That is, about 2/5 ounce or about 12 grams; also in verses 16 and 18
  3. 2 Kings 7:1 That is, probably about 20 pounds or about 9 kilograms of barley; also in verses 16 and 18
  4. 2 Kings 7:3 The Hebrew for leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin; also in verse 8.