열왕기하 4

1선지자의 생도의 아내 중에 한 여인이 엘리사에게 부르짖어 가로되 당신의 종 나의 남편이 이미 죽었는데 당신의 종이 여호와를 경외한 줄은 당신이 아시는 바니이다 이제 채주가 이르러 나의 두 아이를 취하여 그 종을 삼고자 하나이다 2엘리사가 저에게 이르되 내가 너를 위하여 어떻게 하랴 네 집에 무엇이 있는지 내게 고하라 저가 가로되 계집종의 집에 한 병 기름 외에는 아무 것도 없나이다 3가로되 너는 밖에 나가서 모든 이웃에게 그릇을 빌라 빈 그릇을 빌되 조금 빌지 말고 4너는 네 두 아들과 함께 들어가서 문을 닫고 그 모든 그릇에 기름을 부어서 차는 대로 옮겨 놓으라 5여인이 물러가서 그 두 아들과 함께 문을 닫은 후에 저희는 그릇을 그에게로 가져 오고 그는 부었더니 6그릇에 다 찬지라 여인이 아들에게 이르되 또 그릇을 내게로 가져오라 아들이 가로되 다른 그릇이 없나이다 하니 기름이 곧 그쳤더라 7그 여인이 하나님의 사람에게 나아가서 고한대 저가 가로되 너는 가서 기름을 팔아 빚을 갚고 남은 것으로 너와 네 두 아들이 생활하라 하였더라 8하루는 엘리사가 수넴에 이르렀더니 거기 한 귀한 여인이 저를 간권하여 음식을 먹게 한고로 엘리사가 그곳을 지날 때마다 음식을 먹으러 그리로 들어갔더라 9여인이 그 남편에게 이르되 항상 우리에게로 지나는 이 사람은 하나님의 거룩한 사람인 줄을 내가 아노니 10우리가 저를 위하여 작은 방을 담 위에 짓고 침상과 책상과 의자와 촛대를 진설하사이다 저가 우리에게 이르면 거기 유하리이다 하였더라 11하루는 엘리사가 거기 이르러 그 방에 들어가서 누웠더니 12자기 사환 게하시에게 이르되 이 수넴 여인을 불러오라 곧 부르매 여인이 그 앞에 선지라 13엘리사가 자기 사환에게 이르되 너는 저에게 이르라 네가 이같이 우리를 위하여 생각이 주밀하도다 내가 너를 위하여 어떻게 하랴 왕에게나 군대장관에게 무슨 구할 것이 있느냐 여인이 가로되 나는 내 백성 중에 거하나이다 하니라 14엘리사가 가로되 그러면 저를 위하여 무엇을 하여야 할꼬 게하시가 대답하되 참으로 이 여인은 아들이 없고 그 남편은 늙었나이다 15가로되 다시 부르라 부르매 여인이 문에 서니라 16엘리사가 가로되 돌이 되면 네가 아들을 안으리라 여인이 가로되 아니로소이다 내 주 하나님의 사람이여 당신의 계집종을 속이지 마옵소서 하니라 17여인이 과연 잉태하여 돌이 돌아오매 엘리사의 말한 대로 아들을 낳았더라 18그 아이가 저으기 자라매 하루는 곡식 베는 자에게 나가서 그 아비에게 이르렀더니 19그 아비에게 이르되 내 머리야 내 머리야 하는지라 그 아비가 사환에게 명하여 그 어미에게로 데려가라 하매 20곧 어미에게로 데려갔더니 낮까지 어미의 무릎에 앉았다가 죽은지라 21그 어미가 올라가서 아들을 하나님의 사람의 침상 위에 두고 문을 닫고 나와서 22그 남편을 불러 이르되 청컨대 한 사환과 한 나귀를 내게로 보내소서 내가 하나님의 사람에게 달려갔다가 돌아오리이다 23그 남편이 가로되 초하루도 아니요 안식일도 아니어늘 그대가 오늘날 어찌하여 저에게 나아가고자 하느뇨 여인이 가로되 평안이니이다 24이에 나귀에 안장을 지우고 자기 사환에게 이르되 몰아 앞으로 나아가라 내가 말하지 아니하거든 나의 달려가기를 천천하게 하지 말라 하고 25드디어 갈멜 산으로 가서 하나님의 사람에게로 나아가니라 하나님의 사람이 멀리서 저를 보고 자기 사환 게하시에게 이르되 저기 수넴 여인이 있도다 26너는 달려가서 저를 맞아 이르기를 너는 평안하냐 네 남편이 평안하냐 아이가 평안하냐 하라 하였더니 여인이 대답하되 평안하다 하고 27산에 이르러 하나님의 사람에게 나아가서 그 발을 안은지라 게하시가 가까이 와서 저를 물리치고자 하매 하나님의 사람이 가로되 가만 두라 그 중심에 괴로움이 있다마는 여호와께서 내게 숨기시고 이르지 아니하셨도다 28여인이 가로되 내가 내 주께 아들을 구하더이까 나를 속이지 말라고 내가 말하지 아니하더이까 29엘리사가 게하시에게 이르되 네 허리를 묶고 내 지팡이를 손에 들고 가라 사람을 만나거든 인사하지 말며 사람이 네게 인사할지라도 대답하지 말고 내 지팡이를 그 아이 얼굴에 놓으라 30아이의 어미가 가로되 여호와의 사심과 당신의 혼의 사심을 가리켜 맹세하노니 내가 당신을 떠나지 아니하리이다 엘리사가 이에 일어나 여인을 좇아가니라 31게하시가 저희의 앞서 가서 지팡이를 그 아이의 얼굴에 놓았으나 소리도 없고 듣는 모양도 없는지라 돌아와서 엘리사를 맞아 가로되 아이가 깨지 아니하였나이다 32엘리사가 집에 들어가 보니 아이가 죽었는데 자기의 침상에 눕혔는지라 33들어가서는 문을 닫으니 두 사람뿐이라 엘리사가 여호와께 기도하고 34아이의 위에 올라 엎드려 자기 입을 그 입에, 자기 눈을 그 눈에, 자기 손을 그 손에 대고 그 몸에 엎드리니 아이의 살이 차차 따뜻하더라 35엘리사가 내려서 집 안에서 한번 이리 저리 다니고 다시 아이 위에 올라 엎드리니 아이가 일곱 번 재채기하고 눈을 뜨는지라 36엘리사가 게하시를 불러서 저 수넴 여인을 불러오라 하니 곧 부르매 여인이 들어가니 엘리사가 가로되 네 아들을 취하라 37여인이 들어가서 엘리사의 발 앞에서 땅에 엎드려 절하고 아들을 안고 나가니라 38엘리사가 다시 길갈에 이르니 그 땅에 흉년이 들었는데 선지자의 생도가 엘리사의 앞에 앉은지라 엘리사가 자기 사환에게 이르되 큰 솥을 걸고 선지자의 생도들을 위하여 국을 끓이라 하매 39한 사람이 채소를 캐러 들에 나가서 야등덩굴을 만나 그것에서 들외를 따서 옷자락에 채워가지고 돌아와서 썰어 국 끓이는 솥에 넣되 저희는 무엇인지 알지 못한지라 40이에 퍼다가 무리에게 주어 먹게 하였더니 무리가 국을 먹다가 외쳐 가로되 하나님의 사람이여 솥에 사망의 독이 있나이다 하고 능히 먹지 못하는지라 41엘리사가 가로되 그러면 가루를 가져오라 하여 솥에 던지고 가로되 퍼다가 무리에게 주어 먹게 하라 하매 이에 솥 가운데 해독이 없어지니라 42한 사람이 바알살리사에서부터 와서 처음 익은 식물 곧 보리떡 이십과 또 자루에 담은 채소를 하나님의 사람에게 드린지라 저가 가로되 무리에게 주어 먹게 하라 43그 사환이 가로되 어찜이니이까 이것을 일백 명에게 베풀겠나이까 하나 엘리사는 또 가로되 무리에게 주어 먹게 하라 여호와의 말씀이 무리가 먹고 남으리라 하셨느니라 44저가 드디어 무리 앞에 베풀었더니 여호와의 말씀과 같이 다 먹고 남았더라

1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.” 2Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.” 3Then he said, “Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don’t borrow just a few. 4You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that which is full.” 5So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out. 6When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” The oil stopped flowing. 7Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.” 8It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread. 9She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually. 10Please let us make a little room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.” 11One day he came there, and he turned into the room and lay there. 12He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him. 13He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.” 14He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.” 15He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door. 16He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.” 17The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her. 18When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers. 19He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died. 21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out. 22She called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.” 23He said, “Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” She said, “It’s alright.” 24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.” 25So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite. 26Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?’” She answered, “It is well.” 27When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.” 28Then she said, “Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn’t I say, Do not deceive me?” 29Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the face of the child.” 30The mother of the child said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” He arose, and followed her. 31Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, “The child has not awakened.” 32When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed. 33He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh. 34He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm. 35Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. 36He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.” 37Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out. 38Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.” 39One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them. 40So they poured out for the men to eat. As they were eating some of the stew, they cried out, and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” They could not eat of it. 41But he said, “Then bring meal.” He cast it into the pot; and he said, “Pour out for the people, that they may eat.” There was no harm in the pot. 42A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.” 43His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But he said, “Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yahweh, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’” 44So he set it before them, and they ate, and left some of it, according to Yahweh’s word.

1Een vrouw nu uit de vrouwen van de zonen der profeten riep tot Elisa, zeggende: Uw knecht, mijn man, is gestorven, en gij weet, dat uw knecht den HEERE was vrezende; nu is de schuldheer gekomen, om mijn beide kinderen voor zich tot knechten te nemen. 2En Elisa zeide tot haar: Wat zal ik u doen? Geef mij te kennen, wat gij in het huis hebt. En zij zeide: Uw dienstmaagd heeft niet met al in het huis, dan een kruik met olie. 3Toen zeide hij: Ga, eis voor u vaten van buiten, van al uw naburen ledige vaten; maak er niet weinig te hebben. 4Kom dan in, en sluit de deur voor u en voor uw zonen toe; daarna giet in al die vaten, en zet weg, dat vol is. 5Zo ging zij van hem, en sloot de deur voor zich en voor haar zonen toe; die brachten haar de vaten toe, en zij goot in. 6En het geschiedde, als die vaten vol waren, dat zij tot haar zoon zeide: Breng mij nog een vat aan; maar hij zeide tot haar: Er is geen vat meer. En de olie stond stil. 7Toen kwam zij, en gaf het den man Gods te kennen; en hij zeide: Ga heen, verkoop de olie, en betaal uw schuldheer; gij dan met uw zonen, leef bij het overige. 8Het geschiedde ook op een dag, als Elisa naar Sunem doortrok, dat aldaar een grote vrouw was, dewelke hem aanhield om brood te eten. Voorts geschiedde het, zo dikwijls hij doortrok, week hij daarin, om brood te eten. 9En zij zeide tot haar man: Zie nu, ik heb gemerkt, dat deze man Gods heilig is, die bij ons altoos doortrekt. 10Laat ons toch een kleine opperkamer van een wand maken, en laat ons daar voor hem zetten een bed, en tafel, en stoel, en kandelaar; zo zal het geschieden, wanneer hij tot ons komt, dat hij daar inwijke. 11En het geschiedde op een dag, dat hij daar kwam; en hij week in die opperkamer, en legde zich daar neder. 12Toen zeide hij tot zijn jongen Gehazi: Roep deze Sunamietische. En als hij ze geroepen had, stond zij voor zijn aangezicht. 13(Want hij had hem gezegd: Zeg nu tot haar: Zie, gij zijt zorgvuldig voor ons geweest, met al deze zorgvuldigheid; wat is er voor u te doen? Is er iets om voor u te spreken tot den koning, of tot den krijgsoverste? En zij had gezegd: Ik woon in het midden mijns volks. 14Toen had hij gezegd: Wat is er dan voor haar te doen? En Gehazi had gezegd: Zij heeft toch geen zoon, en haar man is oud. 15Daarom had hij gezegd: Roep haar. En als hij ze geroepen had, stond zij in de deur.) 16En hij zeide: Op dezen gezetten tijd, omtrent dezen tijd des levens zult gij een zoon omhelzen. En zij zeide: Neen, mijn heer, gij, man Gods, lieg tegen uw dienstmaagd niet. 17En de vrouw werd zwanger, en baarde een zoon op dien gezette tijd, omtrent den tijd des levens, dien Elisa tot haar gesproken had. 18Toen nu het kind groot werd, geschiedde het op een dag, dat het uitging tot zijn vader, tot de maaiers. 19En het zeide tot zijn vader: Mijn hoofd, mijn hoofd! Hij dan zeide tot een jongen: Draag hem tot zijn moeder. 20En hij droeg hem, en bracht hem tot zijn moeder. En hij zat op haar knieen tot aan den middag toe; toen stierf hij. 21En zij ging op, en legde hem op het bed van den man Gods; daarna sloot zij voor hem toe, en ging uit. 22En zij riep om haar man, en zeide: Zend mij toch een van de jongens, en een van de ezelinnen, dat ik tot den man Gods lope, en wederkomen. 23En hij zeide: Waarom gaat gij heden tot hem? Het is geen nieuwe maan, noch sabbat. En zij zeide: Het zal wel zijn. 24Toen zadelde zij de ezelin, en zeide tot haar jongen: Drijf, en ga voort; houd mij niet op voort te rijden, tenzij dan dat ik het u zegge. 25Alzo toog zij heen, en kwam tot den man Gods, tot den berg Karmel. En het geschiedde, als de man Gods haar van tegenover zag, dat hij tot Gehazi, zijn jongen zeide: Zie, daar is de Sunamietische. 26Nu loop toch haar tegemoet, en zeg tot haar: Is het wel met u? Is het wel met uw man? Is het wel met uw kind? En zij zeide: Het is wel. 27Toen zij nu tot den man Gods op den berg kwam, vatte zij zijn voeten. Maar Gehazi trad toe, om haar af te stoten. Doch de man Gods zeide: Laat ze geworden; want haar ziel is in haar bitterlijk bedroefd, en de HEERE heeft het voor mij verborgen, en mij niet verkondigd. 28En zij zeide: Heb ik een zoon van mijn heer begeerd? Zeide ik niet: Bedrieg mij niet? 29En hij zeide tot Gehazi: Gord uw lenden, en neem mijn staf in uw hand, en ga henen; zo gij iemand vindt, groet hem niet; en zo u iemand groet, antwoord hem niet; en leg mijn staf op het aangezicht van den jongen. 30Doch de moeder van den jongen zeide: Zo waarachtig als de HEERE leeft en uw ziel leeft, ik zal u niet verlaten! Hij stond dan op, en volgde haar na. 31Gehazi nu was voor hun aangezicht doorgegaan; en hij legde den staf op het aangezicht van den jongen; doch er was geen stem, noch opmerking. Zo keerde hij weder hem tegemoet, en bracht hem boodschap, zeggende: De jongen is niet ontwaakt. 32En toen Elisa in het huis kwam, ziet, zo was de jongen dood, zijnde gelegd op zijn bed. 33Zo ging hij in, en sloot de deur voor hen beiden toe, en bad tot den HEERE. 34En hij klom op, en legde zich neder op het kind, en leggende zijn mond op deszelfs mond, en zijn ogen op zijn ogen, en zijn handen op zijn handen, breidde zich over hem uit. En het vlees des kinds werd warm. 35Daarna kwam hij weder, en wandelde in het huis eens herwaarts, en eens derwaarts, en klom weder op, en breidde zich over hem uit; en de jongen niesde tot zevenmaal toe; daarna deed de jongen zijn ogen open. 36En hij riep Gehazi, en zeide: Roep deze Sunamietische. En hij riep ze, en zij kwam tot hem; en hij zeide: Neem uw zoon op. 37Zo kwam zij, en viel voor zijn voeten, en boog zich ter aarde, en zij nam haar zoon op, en ging uit. 38Als nu Elisa weder te Gilgal kwam, zo was er honger in dat land, en de zonen der profeten zaten voor zijn aangezicht; en hij zeide tot zijn jongen: Zet den groten pot aan, en zied moes voor de zonen der profeten. 39Toen ging er een uit in het veld, om moeskruiden te lezen, en hij vond een wilden wijnstok, en las daarvan, zijn kleed vol wilde kolokwinten, en kwam, en sneed ze in den moespot; want zij kenden ze niet. 40Daarna schepten zij voor de mannen op om te eten; en het geschiedde, als zij aten van dat moes, dat zij riepen en zeiden: Man Gods, de dood is in den pot! En zij konden het niet eten. 41Maar hij zeide: Brengt dan meel; en hij wierp het in den pot; en hij zeide: Schep voor het volk op, dat zij eten. Toen was er niets kwaads in den pot. 42En er kwam een man van Baal-Salisa, en bracht den man Gods broden der eerstelingen, twintig gerstebroden, en groene aren in haar hulzen; en hij zeide: Geef aan het volk, dat zij eten. 43Doch zijn dienaar zeide: Wat zou ik dat aan honderd mannen voorzetten? En hij zeide: Geef aan het volk, dat zij eten; want alzo zegt de HEERE: Men zal eten en overhouden. 44Zo zette hij het hun voor, en zij aten, en zij hielden over, naar het woord des HEEREN.