Nevi'im
Melakhim Bet6
2 Kings · Chapter 6
And the sons of the nevi'im said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
Let us go, we pray thee, unto Yarden, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
So he went with them. And when they came to Yarden, they cut down wood.
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
And the man of Elohim said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast
it in thither; and the iron did swim.
Therefore said he, Take
it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.
Then the king of Syria warred against Yisra'el, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place
shall be my camp.
And the man of Elohim sent unto the king of Yisra'el, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
And the king of Yisra'el sent to the place which the man of Elohim told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us
is for the king of Yisra'el?
And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the navi that
is in Yisra'el, telleth the king of Yisra'el the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
And he said, Go and spy where he
is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold,
he is in Dothan.
Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
And when the servant of the man of Elohim was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
And he answered, Fear not: for they that
be with us
are more than they that
be with them.
And Elisha prayed, and said, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain
was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
And Elisha said unto them, This
is not the way, neither
is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.
And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), open the eyes of these
men, that they may see. And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold,
they were in the midst of Samaria.
And the king of Yisra'el said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite
them? shall I smite
them?
And he answered, Thou shalt not smite
them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Yisra'el.
And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was
sold for fourscore
pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five
pieces
of silver.
And as the king of Yisra'el was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
And he said, If 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold,
he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
Then he said, Elohim do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and
the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door:
is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?
And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil
is of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); what should I wait for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) any longer?
Nevi'im
Melakhim Bet7
2 Kings · Chapter 7
Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), To morrow about this time
shall a measure of fine flour
be sold
for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of Elohim, and said, Behold,
if 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) would make windows in shamayim, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see
it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine
is
in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold,
there was no man there.
For the master had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses,
even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Yisra'el hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it
was, and fled for their life.
And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid
it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence
also, and went and hid
it.
Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day
is
a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.
So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold,
there was
no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they
were.
And he called the porters; and they told
it to the king’s house within.
And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we
be
hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
And one of his servants answered and said, Let
some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they
are as all the multitude of Yisra'el that are left in it: behold,
I say, they
are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
And they went after them unto Yarden: and, lo, all the way
was
full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was
sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of Elohim had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
And it came to pass as the man of Elohim had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
And that lord answered the man of Elohim, and said, Now, behold,
if 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) should make windows in shamayim, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
Nevi'im
Melakhim Bet8
2 Kings · Chapter 8
Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of Elohim: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of Elohim, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this
is the woman, and this
is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that
was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of Elohim is come hither.
And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of Elohim, and enquire of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of Elohim wept.
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Yisra'el: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
And Hazael said, But what,
is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath shewed me that thou
shalt be king over Syria.
So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me
that
thou shouldest surely recover.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped
it in water, and spread
it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Yisra'el, Jehoshaphat
being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Yerushalayim.
And he walked in the way of the kings of Yisra'el, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Yet 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) would not destroy Judah for Dawid his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light,
and to his children.
In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did,
are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of Dawid: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Yisra'el did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
Two and twenty years old
was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name
was
Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Yisra'el.
And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), as
did the house of Ahab: for he
was the son in torah of the house of Ahab.
And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.