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1 眾先知的弟子對厄里叟說：「看，我們同你住的地方太窄小了，
The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “The place where we live with you is too small for us all.
2 請你讓我們到約旦河去，每人取一根樑木，在那裏建造我們的住所。」他答說：「你們去罷! 」
Please let us go to the Jordan, and let every man cut down a tree there, and let us build us a place there where we may live.” Elisha answered, “You may go ahead.”
3 其中一個人說：「請你也同你的僕人一起去! 」厄里叟答說：「我去。」
One of them said, “Please go with your servants.” Elisha answered, “I will go.”
4 先知便同他們一起去了。他們到了約旦河，就砍伐樹木。
So he went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down trees.
5 其中一個，砍木樑時，斧頭掉在水裏了，就大聲叫喊說：哎唷! 我主，這把斧子是借來的啊! 」
But as one was chopping, the ax head fell into the water; he cried out and said, “Oh no, my master, it was borrowed!”
6 天主的人問他說：「斧頭掉在那裏﹖」那人將那地方指給先知看。先知即砍下一塊木頭，丟在那裏，使斧頭浮了上來。
So the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” The man showed Elisha the place. He then cut off a stick, threw it in the water, and made the iron float.
7 先知對他說：「你拿上來罷! 」他就伸手拿了上來。
Elisha said, “Pick it up.” So the man reached out his hand and grabbed it.
8 阿蘭王同以色列交戰時，與自己的臣商議說：要在某某地方埋伏。
Now the king of Aram was waging war against Israel. He consulted with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”
9 但天主的人打發人去見以色列王說：「你要小心提防，不要經過某某地方，因為阿蘭人已在那裏設下埋伏。」
So the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Be careful not to pass that place, for the Arameans are going down there.”
10 以色列王就派人去偵察天主的人警告他的地方；他就小心防備，不只一兩次。
The king of Israel sent a message to the place about which the man of God had spoken and warned him. More than once or twice, when the king went there, he was on his guard.
11 阿蘭王為此事心中頗為煩惱，遂將臣僕召來，對他說：「難道你們不能告訴我：我們中誰支持以色列王嗎﹖」
The king of Aram was enraged about these warnings, and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not tell me who among us is for the king of Israel?”
12 一個臣僕答說：「我主，大王! 沒有誰支持，只有以色列的先知厄里叟，將君王在密室裏所談的事，都告訴了以色列王。」
So one of his servants said, “No, my master, king, for Elisha the prophet in Israel tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your own bedroom!”
13 阿蘭王說：「你們去看看他在那裏，我好派人去捉拿。」有人告訴君王說：「他在多堂。」
The king replied, “Go and see where Elisha is so I may send men and capture him.” It was told him, “See, he is in Dothan.”
14 阿蘭王就打發馬隊戰車和強大的部隊前去，夜間到了那裏，將城圍住。
So the king sent to Dothan horses, chariots, and a large army. They came by night and surrounded the city.
15 天主的人的僕人清早起來出門時，看見軍隊車馬將城包圍了，就對先知說：「哎! 我主，我們怎麼辦﹖」
When the servant of the man of God had risen early and gone outside, behold, a large army with horses and chariots surrounded the city. His servant said to him, “Oh, my master! What will we do?”
16 先知答說：「不必害怕，因為偕同我們的，比他們的還多。」
Elisha answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
17 厄里叟就祈禱說：「上主，求你開啟他的眼，叫他看見。」上主就開了僕人的眼，他看見遍山都是火馬車，圍繞著厄里叟。
Elisha prayed and said, “Yahweh, I beg that you will open his eyes that he may see.” Then Yahweh opened the servant's eyes, and he saw. Behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha!
18 敵人下到先知那裏的時候，厄里叟懇求上主說：「求你打擊這個民族，使他們眼目失明。」上主果然照厄里叟的話打擊了他們，使他們眼目失明。
When the Arameans came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh and said, “Strike these people blind, I ask you.” So Yahweh made them blind, just as Elisha had asked.
19 厄里叟對他們說：「不是這條路，也不是這座城；你們跟我來，我要領你們到你們尋找的人那裏去。」於是先知領他們到了撒瑪黎雅。
Then Elisha told the Arameans, “This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you are looking for.” Then he led them to Samaria.
20 他們一進了撒瑪黎雅，厄里叟就祈禱說：「上主，開啟這些人的眼睛，叫他們看見。」上主果然開了他們的眼睛；他們一看，自己竟在撒瑪黎雅城內。
It came about that when they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “Yahweh, open the eyes of these men that they may see.” Yahweh opened their eyes and they saw, and behold, they were in the middle of the city of Samaria.
21 以色列王看見他們，就對厄里叟說：「我父，要殺死他們嗎﹖」
The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, should I kill them? Should I kill them?”
22 厄里叟答說：「不要殺他們；你自己用弓劍擄來的人，你豈可殺死﹖你要為這些人預備飯和水，叫他們吃喝，然後讓他們回到自己的主上那裏去。」
Elisha answered, “You must not kill them. Would you kill those whom you had taken captive with your sword and bow? Put bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”
23 君王就給他們預備了盛宴，叫他們吃了喝了，打發他們回到自己的主上那裏去。從此，阿蘭隊伍再沒有侵犯以色列地方。
So the king prepared much food for them, and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went back to their master. Those bands of Aramean soldiers did not return for a long time into the land of Israel.
24 這事以後，阿蘭王本哈達得集合了他所有的軍隊，上來圍困撒瑪黎雅。
Later after this Ben Hadad king of Aram gathered all his army and attacked Samaria and besieged it.
25 撒瑪黎雅被圍困後，陷於嚴重的飢荒，甚至一個驢頭，值八十「協刻耳」銀子，四分之一「卡步」豆莢，值五「協刻耳」銀子。
So there was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
26 當以色列王從城牆上經過時，有一個婦人呼求他說：「我主大王，救救我罷! 」
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my master, king.”
27 君王答說：「如果上主不救你，我怎能救你﹖靠禾場﹖靠酒池﹖」
He said, “If Yahweh does not help you, how can I help you? Is there anything coming from the threshing floor or winepress?”
28 君王問那婦人說：「你有什麼事﹖」婦人答說：「這個女人曾對我說：把你的兒子交出來，我們今天吃；留下我的兒子，我們明天吃。
The king continued, “What is troubling you?” She answered, “This woman said to me, 'Give your son so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'”
29 於是我們就把我的兒子煮著吃了。第二天我對那女人說：把你的兒子交出來給我們吃，她卻把自己的兒子藏了起來。」
So we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her on the next day, “Give your son that we may eat him, but she has hidden her son.”
30 君王聽了這婦人的話，就撕裂了自己的衣服，─當他正在城牆上經過，民眾都看見了他貼身穿著苦衣，─
So when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall), and the people looked and saw that he had sackcloth underneath, against his skin.
31 說「如果沙法特的兒子厄里叟的頭，今天還留在他身上，願天主嚴厲，且加倍嚴厲地懲罰我! 」
Then he said, “May God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on him today.”
32 那時厄里叟正坐在屋裏，長老們同他坐在一起，君王派一個人在他以前去，但是這人還未來到，厄里叟就對長老們說：「你們看，這個兇手之子，竟派人來要斬我的頭。你們注意，使者來到時，你們要把門關上，把他關在門外；在他後面不就是他主上的腳步聲嗎﹖」
But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a man from before him, but when the messenger came to Elisha, he said to the elders, “See how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?”
33 先知還同他們說話的時候，君王就下到他那裏說：「這災難是由上主來的，我對上主還有什麼指望﹖」
While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. The king had said, “Behold, this trouble comes from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”
