2 Kings 4

1 Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”

1 有一个先知的妻子哀求以利沙说：“你仆人——我丈夫怎样敬畏耶和华，你是知道的。如今他去世了，债主来要把我的两个孩子带去做奴隶。”

2 “How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”

2 以利沙问她：“我该怎样帮你呢？告诉我，你家里有什么？”妇人答道：“婢女家什么也没有，只有一瓶油。”

3 “Go,” said Elisha, “borrow empty jars from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.

3 以利沙说：“你去向所有邻居借空器皿，要尽量多借一些。

4 Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these jars, setting the full ones aside.”

4 然后回家关上门，你和你儿子在屋里把那瓶油倒在所有借来的器皿中，装满的放在一边。”

5 So she left him, and after she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing jars to her, and she kept pouring.

5 于是，妇人辞别以利沙，回去后把自己和儿子关在屋里，儿子递给她器皿，她就倒油。

6 When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another.” But he replied, “There are no more jars.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

6 器皿都装满了，她对儿子说：“再拿个器皿给我。”儿子说：“已经没有了。”这时，油止住了。

7 She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”

7 妇人将经过告诉上帝的仆人，上帝的仆人对她说：“你去把油卖了还债，你们母子可以用剩下的钱度日。”

8 One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.

8 一天，以利沙路过书念，那里一位富有的妇人挽留他吃饭。此后以利沙每次路过那里，总到她家里吃饭。

9 Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.

9 那妇人对丈夫说：“我看常路过我们这里的这位是上帝圣洁的仆人。

10 Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”

10 不如我们在房顶上给他盖一间小屋，里面放床、桌子、椅子和灯。这样，他来我们家时，可以在那里休息。”

11 One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down.

11 一天，以利沙又到了那里，便在那间小屋里休息。

12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, she stood before him,

12 以利沙吩咐仆人基哈西去请书念的妇人。他就请来妇人，妇人站在以利沙面前。

13 and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.

13 以利沙吩咐基哈西说：“你对她说，‘你为我们费了不少心，我们该为你做些什么呢？要不要我们在王或元帅面前为你说些好话呢？’”她答道：“我在本族中安居无事。”

14 So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”

14 以利沙问基哈西：“我们能为她做什么呢？”基哈西说：“她没有儿子，丈夫也已经老了。”

15 “Call her,” said Elisha. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.

15 以利沙说：“你再去请她来。”她来了，站在门口。

16 And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”

16 以利沙对她说：“明年这时候，你必抱一个儿子。”她说：“上帝的仆人，我主啊，不要骗婢女。”

17 But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

17 那妇人果然怀了孕，在第二年的那时候生了一个儿子，应验了以利沙对她说的话。

18 And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.

18 孩子渐渐长大。一天，他到收割的人那里找他父亲。

19 “My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

19 突然，他对他父亲喊道：“我的头啊！我的头啊！”他父亲见状立刻吩咐仆人抱他到他母亲那里。

20 After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

20 仆人把他抱起来，送到他母亲那里。孩子坐在母亲的膝上，到中午就死了。

21 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.

21 他母亲上楼把他放在上帝仆人的床上，关上门出来。

22 And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”

22 她叫来丈夫，对他说：“请你预备一个仆人和一头驴，我好赶快去见上帝的仆人，然后返回来。”

23 “Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.

23 她丈夫说：“今天不是朔日 ，也不是安息日，你为什么要去见他？”妇人说：“放心吧。”

24 Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”

24 她骑上驴，对仆人说：“快走吧！我不吩咐你，就不要慢下来。”

25 So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.

25 她就去迦密山见上帝的仆人。上帝的仆人远远望见她，就对仆人基哈西说：“你看，书念的妇人来了！

26 Please run out now to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’” And she answered, “Everything is all right.”

26 你跑去迎接她，问问她和她的丈夫与孩子都好吗。” 妇人对以利沙的仆人说：“一切都好。”

27 When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

27 可是，她上山见到上帝的仆人后，就抱住他的脚。基哈西想要推开她，但上帝的仆人说：“由她吧！因为她心里非常痛苦。耶和华没有告诉我发生了什么事。”

28 Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”

28 妇人说：“我何尝向我主求过儿子呢？我不是对你说不要骗我吗？”

29 So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”

29 以利沙吩咐基哈西：“你要束上腰带，拿着我的杖去她家。路上不论遇见谁，都不要问候他。有人问候你，也不要作答。去把我的杖放在孩子脸上。”

30 And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.

30 孩子的母亲说：“我凭永活的耶和华和你的性命起誓，你若不同去，我决不离开你。”于是，以利沙跟她同去。

31 Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”

31 基哈西先赶到，把杖放在孩子脸上，可是孩子一点动静也没有。他就回去找以利沙，路上碰见他，便说：“孩子还没醒过来。”

32 When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.

32 以利沙进了屋子，看见孩子死了，躺在床上，

33 So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.

33 就关上门，向耶和华祈祷。

34 Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy’s body became warm.

34 祷告后，他上床伏在孩子身上，口对口，眼对眼，手对手，孩子的身体渐渐变暖了。

35 Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

35 然后，以利沙起来在房内来回走了一趟，又上床伏在孩子身上。孩子打了七个喷嚏，便睁开了眼睛。

36 Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”

36 以利沙叫基哈西请那妇人来。他便请来妇人，以利沙对妇人说：“把你儿子抱走吧。”

37 She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.

37 妇人进来，在以利沙脚前下拜，然后抱起儿子出去了。

38 When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”

38 以利沙回到吉甲，那里正遭遇饥荒。一群先知坐在他面前，他吩咐仆人把一口大锅放在火上给他们煮汤。

39 One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.

39 有个先知到田间摘野菜，看见一棵野瓜藤，便摘了一兜野瓜回来，切碎了放进锅里，却不知道那是什么瓜。

40 And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.

40 汤煮好后倒出来给众人喝，他们刚喝了一点，就叫道：“上帝的仆人啊，锅里有剧毒！”他们都不敢喝了。

41 Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

41 以利沙说：“拿点面粉来。”他把面粉撒在锅里，说：“倒出来给众人喝吧。”于是，锅里没有毒了。

42 Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.

42 从巴力·沙利沙来了一个人，他带了二十个用初熟大麦做的饼和一些麦穗送给上帝的仆人。上帝的仆人说：“分给众人吃吧。”

43 But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”

43 仆人说：“这怎么够一百人吃呢？”以利沙说：“你只管分给众人吃。因为耶和华说，‘众人都能吃饱，并且还会剩下。’”

44 So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.

44 于是，仆人将食物摆在众人面前，他们都吃饱了，果然还有剩余，正如耶和华所言。