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 وَصَرَخَتْ إِلَى أَلِيشَعَ ٱمْرَأَةٌ مِنْ نِسَاءِ بَنِي ٱلْأَنْبِيَاءِ قَائِلَةً: «إِنَّ عَبْدَكَ زَوْجِي قَدْ مَاتَ، وَأَنْتَ تَعْلَمُ أَنَّ عَبْدَكَ كَانَ يَخَافُ ٱلرَّبَّ. فَأَتَى ٱلْمُرَابِي لِيَأْخُذَ وَلَدَيَّ لَهُ عَبْدَيْنِ».

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 فَقَالَ لَهَا أَلِيشَعُ: «مَاذَا أَصْنَعُ لَكِ؟ أَخْبِرِينِي مَاذَا لَكِ فِي ٱلْبَيْتِ؟». فَقَالَتْ: «لَيْسَ لِجَارِيَتِكَ شَيْءٌ فِي ٱلْبَيْتِ إِلَّا دُهْنَةَ زَيْتٍ».

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

3 فَقَالَ: «ٱذْهَبِي ٱسْتَعِيرِي لِنَفْسِكِ أَوْعِيَةً مِنْ خَارِجٍ، مِنْ عِنْدِ جَمِيعِ جِيرَانِكِ، أَوْعِيَةً فَارِغَةً. لَا تُقَلِّلِي.

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 ثُمَّ ٱدْخُلِي وَأَغْلِقِي ٱلْبَابَ عَلَى نَفْسِكِ وَعَلَى بَنِيكِ، وَصُبِّي فِي جَمِيعِ هَذِهِ ٱلْأَوْعِيَةِ، وَمَا ٱمْتَلَأَ ٱنْقُلِيهِ».

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 فَذَهَبَتْ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ وَأَغْلَقَتِ ٱلْبَابَ عَلَى نَفْسِهَا وَعَلَى بَنِيهَا. فَكَانُوا هُمْ يُقَدِّمُونَ لَهَا ٱلْأَوْعِيَةَ وَهِيَ تَصُبُّ.

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 وَلَمَّا ٱمْتَلَأَتِ ٱلْأَوْعِيَةُ قَالَتْ لِٱبْنِهَا: «قَدِّمْ لِي أَيْضًا وِعَاءً». فَقَالَ لَهَا: «لَا يُوجَدُ بَعْدُ وِعَاءٌ». فَوَقَفَ ٱلزَّيْتُ.

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 فَأَتَتْ وَأَخْبَرَتْ رَجُلَ ٱللهِ فَقَالَ: «ٱذْهَبِي بِيعِي ٱلزَّيْتَ وَأَوْفِي دَيْنَكِ، وَعِيشِي أَنْتِ وَبَنُوكِ بِمَا بَقِيَ».

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 وَفِي ذَاتِ يَوْمٍ عَبَرَ أَلِيشَعُ إِلَى شُونَمَ. وَكَانَتْ هُنَاكَ ٱمْرَأَةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ، فَأَمْسَكَتْهُ لِيَأْكُلَ خُبْزًا. وَكَانَ كُلَّمَا عَبَرَ يَمِيلُ إِلَى هُنَاكَ لِيَأْكُلَ خُبْزًا.

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 فَقَالَتْ لِرَجُلِهَا: «قَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّهُ رَجُلُ ٱللهِ، مُقَدَّسٌ ٱلَّذِي يَمُرُّ عَلَيْنَا دَائِمًا.

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 فَلْنَعْمَلْ عُلِّيَّةً عَلَى ٱلْحَائِطِ صَغِيرَةً وَنَضَعْ لَهُ هُنَاكَ سَرِيرًا وَخِوَانًا وَكُرْسِيًّا وَمَنَارَةً، حَتَّى إِذَا جَاءَ إِلَيْنَا يَمِيلُ إِلَيْهَا».

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

11 وَفِي ذَاتِ يَوْمٍ جَاءَ إِلَى هُنَاكَ وَمَالَ إِلَى ٱلْعُلِّيَّةِ وَٱضْطَجَعَ فِيهَا.

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

12 فَقَالَ لِجِيحْزِي غُلَامِهِ: «ٱدْعُ هَذِهِ ٱلشُّونَمِيَّةَ». فَدَعَاهَا، فَوَقَفَتْ أَمَامَهُ.

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 فَقَالَ لَهُ: «قُلْ لَهَا: هُوَذَا قَدِ ٱنْزَعَجْتِ بِسَبَبِنَا كُلَّ هَذَا ٱلِٱنْزِعَاجِ، فَمَاذَا يُصْنَعُ لَكِ؟ هَلْ لَكِ مَا يُتَكَلَّمُ بِهِ إِلَى ٱلْمَلِكِ أَوْ إِلَى رَئِيسِ ٱلْجَيْشِ؟» فَقَالَتْ: «إِنَّمَا أَنَا سَاكِنَةٌ فِي وَسْطِ شَعْبِي».

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

14 ثُمَّ قَالَ: «فَمَاذَا يُصْنَعُ لَهَا؟» فَقَالَ جِيحْزِي: «إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ لَهَا ٱبْنٌ، وَرَجُلُهَا قَدْ شَاخَ».

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

15 فَقَالَ: «ٱدْعُهَا». فَدَعَاهَا، فَوَقَفَتْ فِي ٱلْبَابِ.

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 فَقَالَ: «فِي هَذَا ٱلْمِيعَادِ نَحْوَ زَمَانِ ٱلْحَيَاةِ تَحْتَضِنِينَ ٱبْنًا». فَقَالَتْ: «لَا يَا سَيِّدِي رَجُلَ ٱللهِ. لَا تَكْذِبْ عَلَى جَارِيَتِكَ».

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 فَحَبِلَتِ ٱلْمَرْأَةُ وَوَلَدَتِ ٱبْنًا فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْمِيعَادِ نَحْوَ زَمَانِ ٱلْحَيَاةِ، كَمَا قَالَ لَهَا أَلِيشَعُ.

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

18 وَكَبِرَ ٱلْوَلَدُ. وَفِي ذَاتِ يَوْمٍ خَرَجَ إِلَى أَبِيهِ إِلَى ٱلْحَصَّادِينَ،

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

19 وَقَالَ لِأَبِيهِ: «رَأْسِي، رَأْسِي». فَقَالَ لِلْغُلَامِ: «ٱحْمِلْهُ إِلَى أُمِّهِ».

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 فَحَمَلَهُ وَأَتَى بِهِ إِلَى أُمِّهِ، فَجَلَسَ عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْهَا إِلَى ٱلظُّهْرِ وَمَاتَ.

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 فَصَعِدَتْ وَأَضْجَعَتْهُ عَلَى سَرِيرِ رَجُلِ ٱللهِ، وَأَغْلَقَتْ عَلَيْهِ وَخَرَجَتْ.

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 وَنَادَتْ رَجُلَهَا وَقَالَتْ: «أَرْسِلْ لِي وَاحِدًا مِنَ ٱلْغِلْمَانِ وَإِحْدَى ٱلْأُتُنِ فَأَجْرِيَ إِلَى رَجُلِ ٱللهِ وَأَرْجِعَ».

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 فَقَالَ: «لِمَاذَا تَذْهَبِينَ إِلَيْهِ ٱلْيَوْمَ؟ لَا رَأْسُ شَهْرٍ وَلَا سَبْتٌ». فَقَالَتْ: «سَلَامٌ».

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

24 وَشَدَّتْ عَلَى ٱلْأَتَانِ، وَقَالَتْ لِغُلَامِهَا: «سُقْ وَسِرْ وَلَا تَتَعَوَّقْ لِأَجْلِي فِي ٱلرُّكُوبِ إِنْ لَمْ أَقُلْ لَكَ».

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 وَٱنْطَلَقَتْ حَتَّى جَاءَتْ إِلَى رَجُلِ ٱللهِ إِلَى جَبَلِ ٱلْكَرْمَلِ. فَلَمَّا رَآهَا رَجُلُ ٱللهِ مِنْ بَعِيدٍ قَالَ لِجِيحْزِي غُلَامِهِ: «هُوَذَا تِلْكَ ٱلشُّونَمِيَّةُ.

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 اُرْكُضِ ٱلْآنَ لِلِقَائِهَا وَقُلْ لَهَا: أَسَلَامٌ لَكِ؟ أَسَلَامٌ لِزَوْجِكِ؟ أَسَلَامٌ لِلْوَلَدِ؟» فَقَالَتْ: «سَلَامٌ».

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 فَلَمَّا جَاءَتْ إِلَى رَجُلِ ٱللهِ إِلَى ٱلْجَبَلِ أَمْسَكَتْ رِجْلَيْهِ. فَتَقَدَّمَ جِيحْزِي لِيَدْفَعَهَا، فَقَالَ رَجُلُ ٱللهِ: «دَعْهَا لِأَنَّ نَفْسَهَا مُرَّةٌ فِيهَا وَٱلرَّبُّ كَتَمَ ٱلْأَمْرَ عَنِّي وَلَمْ يُخْبِرْنِي».

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

28 فَقَالَتْ: «هَلْ طَلَبْتُ ٱبْنًا مِنْ سَيِّدِي؟ أَلَمْ أَقُلْ لَا تَخْدَعْنِي؟»

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 فَقَالَ لِجِيحْزِي: «أُشْدُدْ حَقَوَيْكَ وَخُذْ عُكَّازِي بِيَدِكَ وَٱنْطَلِقْ، وَإِذَا صَادَفْتَ أَحَدًا فَلَا تُبَارِكْهُ، وَإِنْ بَارَكَكَ أَحَدٌ فَلَا تُجِبْهُ. وَضَعْ عُكَّازِي عَلَى وَجْهِ ٱلصَّبِيِّ».

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 فَقَالَتْ أُمُّ ٱلصَّبِيِّ: «حَيٌّ هُوَ ٱلرَّبُّ، وَحَيَّةٌ هِيَ نَفْسُكَ، إِنَّنِي لَا أَتْرُكُكَ». فَقَامَ وَتَبِعَهَا.

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 وَجَازَ جِيحْزِي قُدَّامَهُمَا وَوَضَعَ ٱلْعُكَّازَ عَلَى وَجْهِ ٱلصَّبِيِّ، فَلَمْ يَكُنْ صَوْتٌ وَلَا مُصْغٍ. فَرَجَعَ لِلِقَائِهِ وَأَخْبَرَهُ قَائِلًا: «لَمْ يَنْتَبِهِ ٱلصَّبِيُّ».

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

32 وَدَخَلَ أَلِيشَعُ ٱلْبَيْتَ وَإِذَا بِٱلصَّبِيِّ مَيْتٌ وَمُضْطَجعٌ عَلَى سَرِيرِهِ.

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

33 فَدَخَلَ وَأَغْلَقَ ٱلْبَابَ عَلَى نَفْسَيْهِمَا كِلَيْهِمَا، وَصَلَّى إِلَى ٱلرَّبِّ.

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 ثُمَّ صَعِدَ وَٱضْطَجَعَ فَوْقَ ٱلصَّبِيِّ وَوَضَعَ فَمَهُ عَلَى فَمِهِ، وَعَيْنَيْهِ عَلَى عَيْنَيْهِ، وَيَدَيْهِ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ، وَتَمَدَّدَ عَلَيْهِ فَسَخُنَ جَسَدُ ٱلْوَلَدِ.

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 ثُمَّ عَادَ وَتَمَشَّى فِي ٱلْبَيْتِ تَارَةً إِلَى هُنَا وَتَارَةً إِلَى هُنَاكَ، وَصَعِدَ وَتَمَدَّدَ عَلَيْهِ فَعَطَسَ ٱلصَّبِيُّ سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ، ثُمَّ فَتَحَ ٱلصَّبِيُّ عَيْنَيْهِ.

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 فَدَعَا جِيحْزِي وَقَالَ: «اُدْعُ هَذِهِ ٱلشُّونَمِيَّةَ» فَدَعَاهَا. وَلَمَّا دَخَلَتْ إِلَيْهِ قَالَ: «ٱحْمِلِي ٱبْنَكِ».

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

37 فَأَتَتْ وَسَقَطَتْ عَلَى رِجْلَيْهِ وَسَجَدَتْ إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ، ثُمَّ حَمَلَتِ ٱبْنَهَا وَخَرَجَتْ.

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 وَرَجَعَ أَلِيشَعُ إِلَى ٱلْجِلْجَالِ. وَكَانَ جُوعٌ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ وَكَانَ بَنُو ٱلْأَنْبِيَاءِ جُلُوسًا أَمَامَهُ. فَقَالَ لِغُلَامِهِ: «ضَعِ ٱلْقِدْرَ ٱلْكَبِيرَةَ، وَٱسْلُقْ سَلِيقَةً لِبَنِي ٱلْأَنْبِيَاءِ».

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 وَخَرَجَ وَاحِدٌ إِلَى ٱلْحَقْلِ لِيَلْتَقِطَ بُقُولًا، فَوَجَدَ يَقْطِينًا بَرِّيًّا، فَٱلْتَقَطَ مِنْهُ قُثَّاءً بَرِّيًّا مِلْءَ ثَوْبِهِ، وَأَتَى وَقَطَّعَهُ فِي قِدْرِ ٱلسَّلِيقَةِ، لِأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوا.

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 وَصَبُّوا لِلْقَوْمِ لِيَأْكُلُوا. وَفِيمَا هُمْ يَأْكُلُونَ مِنَ ٱلسَّلِيقَةِ صَرَخُوا وَقَالُوا: «فِي ٱلْقِدْرِ مَوْتٌ يَا رَجُلَ ٱللهِ!». وَلَمْ يَسْتَطِيعُوا أَنْ يَأْكُلُوا.

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 فَقَالَ: «هَاتُوا دَقِيقًا». فَأَلْقَاهُ فِي ٱلْقِدْرِ وَقَالَ: «صُبَّ لِلْقَوْمِ فَيَأْكُلُوا». فَكَأَنَّهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْءٌ رَدِيءٌ فِي ٱلْقِدْرِ.

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 وَجَاءَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَعْلِ شَلِيشَةَ وَأَحْضَرَ لِرَجُلِ ٱللهِ خُبْزَ بَاكُورَةٍ عِشْرِينَ رَغِيفًا مِنْ شَعِيرٍ، وَسَوِيقًا فِي جِرَابِهِ. فَقَالَ: «أَعْطِ ٱلشَّعْبَ لِيَأْكُلُوا».

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 فَقَالَ خَادِمُهُ: «مَاذَا؟ هَلْ أَجْعَلُ هَذَا أَمَامَ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ؟» فَقَالَ: «أَعْطِ ٱلشَّعْبَ فَيَأْكُلُوا، لِأَنَّهُ هَكَذَا قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ: يَأْكُلُونَ وَيَفْضُلُ عَنْهُمْ».

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

44 فَجَعَلَ أَمَامَهُمْ فَأَكَلُوا، وَفَضَلَ عَنْهُمْ حَسَبَ قَوْلِ ٱلرَّبِّ.