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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，
And sons of the prophet say to Elisha, “Now behold, the place where we are dwelling before you is too narrow for us;
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！”
please let us go to the Jordan, and we each take one beam from there, and we make a place there for ourselves to dwell there”; and he says, “Go.”
3 有一人说：“求你与仆人同去。”回答说：“我可以去。”
And the one says, “Please be willing, and go with your servants”; and he says, “I go.”
4 于是以利沙与他们同去。到了约旦河，就砍伐树木。
And he goes with them, and they come to the Jordan, and cut down the trees,
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。”
and it comes to pass, the one is felling the beam, and the iron [ax head] has fallen into the water, and he cries and says, “Aah! My lord, for it was borrowed!”
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。
And the man of God says, “To where has it fallen?” And he shows him the place, and he cuts a stick, and casts [it] there, and causes the iron to swim,
7 以利沙说：“拿起来吧！”那人就伸手拿起来了。
and says, “Raise [it] up for yourself”; and he puts forth his hand and takes it.
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。”
And the king of Aram has been fighting against Israel, and takes counsel with his servants, saying, “At such and such a place [is] my encamping.”
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。”
And the man of God sends to the king of Israel, saying, “Take heed of passing by this place, for the Arameans are coming down there”;
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。
and the king of Israel sends to the place of which the man of God spoke to him, and warned him, and he is preserved there not [just] once and not [just] twice.
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？”
And the heart of the king of Aram is tossed about concerning this thing, and he calls to his servants and says to them, “Do you not declare to me who of us [is] for the king of Israel?”
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。”
And one of his servants says, “No, my lord, O king, for Elisha the prophet, who [is] in Israel, declares to the king of Israel the words that you speak in the inner part of your bed-chamber.”
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。”
And he says, “Go and see where he [is], and I send and take him”; and it is declared to him, saying, “Behold—in Dothan.”
14 王就打发车马和大军往那里去，夜间到了，围困那城。
And he sends horses and chariot, and a heavy force there, and they come in by night, and go around against the city.
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？”
And the servant of the man of God rises early, and goes out, and behold, a force is surrounding the city, and horse and chariot, and his young man says to him, “Aah! My lord, how do we do?”
16 神人说：“不要惧怕！与我们同在的比与他们同在的更多。”
And he says, “Do not fear, for more [are] they who [are] with us than they who [are] with them.”
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。
And Elisha prays and says, “YHWH, please open his eyes, and he sees”; and YHWH opens the eyes of the young man, and he sees, and behold, the hill is full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
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。
And they come down to it, and Elisha prays to YHWH and says, “Please strike this nation with blindness”; and He strikes them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.
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。
And Elisha says to them, “This [is] not the way, nor [is] this the city; come after me, and I lead you to the man whom you seek”; and he leads them to Samaria.
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。
And it comes to pass, at their coming to Samaria, that Elisha says, “YHWH, open the eyes of these, and they see”; and YHWH opens their eyes, and they see, and behold, [they are] in the midst of Samaria!
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？”
And the king of Israel says to Elisha at his seeing them, “My father, do I strike, do I strike?”
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。”
And he says, “You do not strike; are you striking those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, and they eat, and drink, and go to their lord.”
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。
And he prepares great provision for them, and they eat and drink, and he sends them away, and they go to their lord: and troops of Aram have not added to come into the land of Israel anymore.
24 此后，亚兰王便·哈达聚集他的全军，上来围困撒马利亚。
And it comes to pass afterward, that Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathers all his camp, and goes up, and lays siege to Samaria,
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。
and there is a great famine in Samaria, and behold, they are laying siege to it, until the head of a donkey is at eighty pieces of silver, and a forth of the cab of dove’s dung at five pieces of silver.
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。”
And it comes to pass, the king of Israel is passing by on the wall, and a woman has cried to him, saying, “Save, my lord, O king.”
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？”
And he says, “YHWH does not save you—from where do I save you? Out of the threshing-floor or out of the wine-vat?”
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。’
And the king says to her, “What is [troubling] you?” And she says, “This woman said to me, Give your son, and we eat him today, and we eat my son tomorrow;
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。”
and we boil my son and eat him, and I say to her on the next day, Give your son, and we eat him; and she hides her son.”
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。
And it comes to pass, at the king’s hearing the words of the woman, that he tears his garments, and he is passing by on the wall, and the people see, and behold, the sackcloth [is] within on his flesh.
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！”
And he says, “Thus God does to me and thus He adds, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on him this day.”
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？”
And Elisha is sitting in his house, and the elderly are sitting with him, and [the king] sends a man from before him; before the messenger comes to him, even he himself said to the elderly, “Have you seen that this son of the murderer has sent [him] to turn aside my head? See, at the coming in of the messenger, shut the door, and you have held him fast at the door, is not the sound of the feet of his lord behind him?”
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？”
He is yet speaking with them, and behold, the messenger is coming down to him, and he says, “Behold, this [is] the calamity from YHWH; why do I wait for YHWH anymore?”
