1 Kings 19
1 And Ahab declares to Jezebel all that Elijah did, and all of how he slew all the prophets by the sword,
| وَأَخْبَرَ آخْابُ إِيزَابِلَ بِمَا صَنَعَهُ إِيلِيَّا، وَكَيْفَ قَتَلَ جَمِيعَ أَنْبِيَاءِ الْبَعْلِ بِالسَّيْفِ، | ١ |
2 and Jezebel sends a messenger to Elijah, saying, “Thus the gods do, and thus do they add—surely about this time tomorrow, I make your life as the life of one of them.”
| فَبَعَثَتْ إِيزَابِلُ رَسُولاً إِلَى إِيلِيَّا قَائِلَةً: «لِتُعَاقِبْنِي الآلِهَةُ أَشَّدَ عِقَابٍ وَتَزِدْ، إِنْ لَمْ أَقْتُلْكَ فِي مِثْلِ هَذَا الْوَقْتِ غَداً، فَتَكُونَ كَمِثْلِ الَّذِينَ قَتَلْتَهُمْ». | ٢ |
3 And he fears, and rises, and goes for his life, and comes to Beer-Sheba, that [is] Judah’s, and leaves his young man there,
| فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ إِيلِيَّا ذَلِكَ هَرَبَ لِيَنْجُوَ بِنَفْسِهِ، وَوَصَلَ إِلَى بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ التَّابِعَةِ لِيَهُوذَا، حَيْثُ تَرَكَ خَادِمَهُ. | ٣ |
4 and he himself has gone a day’s journey into the wilderness, and comes and sits under a certain broom tree, and desires his soul to die, and says, “Enough, now, O YHWH, take my soul, for I [am] not better than my fathers.”
| ثُمَّ هَامَ وَحْدَهُ فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ مَسِيرَةَ يَوْمٍ، حَتَّى أَتَى شَجَرَةَ شِيحٍ، فَجَلَسَ تَحْتَهَا، وَتَمَنَّى الْمَوْتَ لِنَفْسِهِ وَقَالَ: «قَدْ كَفَى الآنَ يَارَبِّي، خُذْ نَفْسِي فَلَسْتُ خَيْراً مِنْ آبَائِي». | ٤ |
5 And he lies down and sleeps under a certain broom tree, and behold, a messenger is reaching toward him and says to him, “Rise, eat”;
| وَاضْطَجَعَ وَنَامَ تَحْتَ شَجَرَةِ الشِّيحِ، وَإذَا بِمَلاكٍ يَمَسُّهُ وَيَقُولُ: «قُمْ وَكُلْ». | ٥ |
6 and he looks attentively, and behold, at his bolster [is] a cake [on] burning stones, and a dish of water, and he eats, and drinks, and turns, and lies down.
| فَتَطَلَّعَ حَوْلَهُ وَإذَا بِهِ يَرَى عِنْدِ رَأْسِهِ رَغِيفاً مَخْبُوزاً عَلَى الجَمْرِ وَجَرَّةَ مَاءٍ. فَأَكَلَ وَشَرِبَ، ثُمَّ عَادَ وَنَامَ. | ٦ |
7 And the messenger of YHWH turns back a second time, and is reaching toward him, and says, “Rise, eat, for the way is too great for you”;
| وَمَسَّهُ مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ ثَانِيَّةً قَائِلاً: «قُمْ وَكُلْ، لأَنَّ أَمَامَكَ مَسَافَةً طَوِيلَةً لِلسَّفَرِ». | ٧ |
8 and he rises, and eats, and drinks, and goes in the power of that food [for] forty days and forty nights, to the mountain of God—Horeb.
| فَقَامَ وَأَكَلَ وَشَرِبَ، وَمَشَى بِقُوَّةِ تِلْكَ الْوَجْبَةِ أَرْبَعِينَ نَهَاراً وَأَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً، حَتَّى بَلَغَ جَبَلَ اللهِ حُورِيبَ. | ٨ |
9 And he comes in there, to the cave, and lodges there, and behold, the word of YHWH [is] to him, and says to him, “What are you [doing] here, Elijah?”
| فَدَخَلَ مُغَارَةً هُنَاكَ وَبَاتَ فِيهَا وَقَالَ الرَّبُّ لإِيلِيَّا: «مَاذَا تَفْعَلُ هُنَا يَاإِيلِيَّا؟» | ٩ |
10 And he says, “I have been very zealous for YHWH, God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant—they have thrown down Your altars, and they have slain Your prophets by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life—to take it.”
| فَأَجَابَ: «غِرْتُ غَيْرَةً لِلرَّبِّ الإِلَهِ الْقَدِيرِ، لأَنَّ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ تَنَكَّرُوا لِعَهْدِكَ وَهَدَمُوا مَذَابِحَكَ وَقَتَلُوا أَنْبِيَاءَكَ بِالسَّيْفِ، وَبَقِيتُ وَحْدِي. وَهَا هُمْ يَبْغُونَ قَتْلِي أَيْضاً» | ١٠ |
11 And He says, “Go out, and you have stood on the mountain before YHWH.” And behold, YHWH is passing by, and a wind—great and strong—is tearing mountains, and shattering rocks before YHWH, [but] YHWH [is] not in the wind; and after the wind [is] a shaking, [but] YHWH [is] not in the shaking;
| فَقَالَ لَهُ: «اخْرُجْ وَقِفْ عَلَى الْجَبَلِ أَمَامِي، لأَنِّي مُزْمِعٌ أَنْ أَعْبُرَ». ثُمَّ هَبَّتْ رِيحٌ عَاتِيَةٌ شَقَّتِ الْجِبَالَ وَحَطَّمَتِ الصُّخُورَ، وَلَكِنَّ الرَّبَّ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي الرِّيحِ. ثُمَّ حَدَثَتْ زَلْزَلَةٌ، وَلَمْ يَكُنِ الرَّبُّ فِي الزَّلْزَلَةِ. | ١١ |
12 and after the shaking [is] a fire, [but] YHWH [is] not in the fire; and after the fire [is] a voice [like] a small whisper;
| وَبَعْدَ الزَّلْزَلَةِ اجْتَازَتْ بِهِ نَارٌ، وَلَمْ يَكُنِ الرَّبُّ فِي النَّارِ. وَبَعْدَ النَّارِ رَفَّ فِي مَسَامِعِ إِيلِيَّا صَوْتٌ مُنْخَفِضٌ هَامِسٌ. | ١٢ |
13 and it comes to pass, at Elijah’s hearing [it], that he wraps his face in his robe, and goes out, and stands at the opening of the cave, and behold, a voice [speaks] to him, and it says, “What are you [doing] here, Elijah?”
| فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ إِيلِيَّا الصَّوْتَ، لَفَّ وَجْهَهُ بِرِدَائِهِ، وَخَرَجَ وَوَقَفَ فِي بَابِ الْكَهْفِ. وَإذَا بِصَوْتٍ يُخَاطِبُهُ: «مَاذَا تَفْعَلُ هُنَا يَاإِيلِيَّا؟» | ١٣ |
14 And he says, “I have been very zealous for YHWH, God of Hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, they have thrown down Your altars, and they have slain Your prophets by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life—to take it.”
| فَأَجَابَ: «غِرْتُ غَيْرَةً لِلرَّبِّ الإِلَهِ الْقَدِيرِ، لأَنَّ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ تَنَكَّروا لِعَهْدِكَ وَهَدَمُوا مَذَابِحَكَ وَقَتَلُوا أَنْبِيَاءَكَ بِالسَّيْفِ، وَبَقِيتُ وَحْدِي، وَهَا هُمْ يَبْغُونَ قَتْلِي». | ١٤ |
15 And YHWH says to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and you have gone in, and anointed Hazael for king over Aram,
| فَقَالَ لَهُ الرَّبُّ: «اذْهَبْ رَاجِعاً فِي الطَّرِيقِ الصَّحْرَاوِيَّةِ الْمُفْضِيَةِ إِلَى دِمَشْقَ، وَهُنَاكَ امْسَحْ حَزَائِيلَ مَلِكاً عَلَى أَرَامَ، | ١٥ |
16 and you anoint Jehu son of Nimshi for king over Israel, and you anoint Elisha son of Shaphat, of Abel-Meholah, for prophet in your stead.
| ثُمَّ امْسَحْ يَاهُو بْنَ نِمْشِي مَلِكاً عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَكَذَلِكَ امْسَحْ أَلِيشَعَ بْنَ شَافَاطَ مِنْ آبَلِ مَحُولَةَ نَبِيًّا خَلَفاً لَكَ. | ١٦ |
17 And it has been, he who has escaped from the sword of Hazael, Jehu puts to death, and he who has escaped from the sword of Jehu, Elisha puts to death;
| فَالَّذِي يَنْجُو مِنْ سَيْفِ حَزَائِيلَ يَقْتُلُهُ يَاهُو، وَالَّذِي يَنْجُو مِنْ سَيْفِ يَاهُو يَقْتُلُهُ أَلِيشَعُ. | ١٧ |
18 and I have left in Israel seven thousand—all the knees that have not bowed to Ba‘al, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
| وَلَقَدْ أَبْقَيْتُ فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ سَبْعَةَ آلافٍ لَمْ يَحْنُوا رُكَبَهُمْ لِلْبَعْلِ وَلَمْ تُقَبِّلْهُ أَفْوَاهُهُمْ». | ١٨ |
19 And he goes there, and finds Elisha son of Shaphat, and he is plowing; twelve yoke [are] before him, and he [is] with the twelfth; and Elijah passes over to him, and casts his robe at him,
| فَانْطَلَقَ إِيلِيَّا مِنْ هُنَاكَ فَوَجَدَ أَلِيشَعَ بْنَ شَافَاطَ يَحْرُثُ حَقْلاً، وَأَمَامَهُ أَحَدَ عَشَرَ زَوْجاً مِنَ الْبَقَرِ، وَهُوَ يَسِيرُ خَلْفَ الزَّوْجِ الثَّانِي عَشَرَ. فَمَرَّ بِهِ إِيلِيَّا وَطَرَحَ عَلَيْهِ رِدَاءَهُ، | ١٩ |
20 and he forsakes the ox, and runs after Elijah, and says, “Please let me give a kiss to my father and to my mother, and I go after you.” And he says to him, “Go, turn back, for what have I done to you?”
| فَتَرَكَ الْبَقَرَ وَرَكَضَ وَرَاءَ إِيلِيَّا وَقَالَ: «دَعْنِي أُوَدِّعُ أَبِي وَأُمِّي وَأَتْبَعُكَ». فَقَالَ لَهُ: «ارْجِعْ، فَأَيُّ شَيْءٍ فَعَلْتُهُ لَكَ؟» | ٢٠ |
21 And he turns back from after him, and takes the yoke of the ox, and sacrifices it, and with [the] instruments of the ox he has boiled its flesh, and gives to the people, and they eat, and he rises, and goes after Elijah, and serves him.
| فَرَجَعَ أَلِيشَعُ وَأَخَذَ زَوْجَ بَقَرٍ ذَبَحَهُمَا وَسَلَقَ لَحْمَهُمَا عَلَى خَشَبِ الْمِحْرَاثِ وَوَزَّعَهُ عَلَى الشَّعْبِ فَأَكَلُوا، ثُمَّ قَامَ وَلَحِقَ بِإِيلِيَّا وَوَاظَبَ عَلَى خِدْمَتِهِ. | ٢١ |
