2 राजा 5
1 अराम के राजा का नामान नाम सेनापति अपने स्वामी की दृष्टि में बड़ा और प्रतिष्ठित पुरुष था, क्योंकि यहोवा ने उसके द्वारा अरामियों को विजयी किया था, और यह शूरवीर था, परन्तु कोढ़ी था।
2 अरामी लोग दल बान्ध कर इस्राएल के देश में जा कर वहां से एक छोटी लड़की बन्धुवाई में ले आए थे और वह नामान की पत्नी की सेवा करती थी।
3 उसने अपनी स्वामिन से कहा, जो मेरा स्वामी शोमरोन के भविष्यद्वक्ता के पास होता, तो क्या ही अच्छा होता! क्योंकि वह उसको कोढ़ से चंगा कर देता।
4 तो किसी ने उसके प्रभु के पास जा कर कह दिया, कि इस्राएली लड़की इस प्रकार कहती है।
5 अराम के राजा ने कहा, तू जा, मैं इस्राएल के राजा के पास एक पत्र भेजूंगा; तब वह दस किक्कार चान्दी और छ:हजार टुकड़े सोना, और दस जोड़े कपड़े साथ ले कर रवाना हो गया।
6 और वह इस्राएल के राजा के पास वह पत्र ले गया जिस में यह लिखा था, कि जब यह पत्र तुझे मिले, तब जानना कि मैं ने नामान नाम अपने एक कर्मचारी को तेरे पास इसलिये भेजा है, कि तू उसका कोढ़ दूर कर दे।
7 इस पत्र के पढ़ने पर इस्राएल का राजा अपने वस्त्र फाड़ कर बोला, क्या मैं मारने वाला और जिलाने वाला परमेश्वर हूँ कि उस पुरुष ने मेरे पास किसी को इसलिये भेजा है कि मैं उसका कोढ़ दूर करूं? सोच विचार तो करो, वह मुझ से झगड़े का कारण ढूंढ़ता होगा।
8 यह सुनकर कि इस्राएल के राजा ने अपने वस्त्र फाड़े हैं, परमेश्वर के भक्त एलीशा ने राजा के पास कहला भेजा, तू ने क्यों अपने वस्त्र फाड़े हैं? वह मेरे पास आए, तब जान लेगा, कि इस्राएल में भविष्यद्वक्ता तो है।
9 तब नामान घोड़ों और रथों समेत एलीशा के द्वार पर आकर खड़ा हुआ।
10 तब एलीशा ने एक दूत से उसके पास यह कहला भेजा, कि तू जा कर यरदन में सात बार डुबकी मार, तब तेरा शरीर ज्यों का त्यों हो जाएगा, और तू शुद्ध होगा।
11 परन्तु नामान क्रोधित हो यह कहता हुआ चला गया, कि मैं ने तो सोचा था, कि अवश्य वह मेरे पास बाहर आएगा, और खड़ा हो कर अपने परमेश्वर यहोवा से प्रार्थना कर के कोढ़ के स्थान पर अपना हाथ फेर कर कोढ़ को दूर करेगा!
12 क्या दमिश्क की अबाना और पर्पर नदियां इस्राएल के सब जलाशयों से अत्तम नहीं हैं? क्या मैं उन में स्नान कर के शुद्ध नहीं हो सकता हूँ? इसलिये वह जलजलाहट से भरा हुआ लौट कर चला गया।
13 तब उसके सेवक पास आकर कहने लगे, हे हमारे पिता यदि भविष्यद्वक्ता तुझे कोई भारी काम करने की आज्ञा देता, तो क्या तू उसे न करता? फिर जब वह कहता है, कि स्नान कर के शुद्ध हो जा, तो कितना अधिक इसे मानना चाहिये।
14 तब उसने परमेश्वर के भक्त के वचन के अनुसार यरदन को जा कर उस में सात बार डुबकी मारी, और उसका शरीर छोटे लड़के का सा हो गया; उौर वह शुद्ध हो गया।
15 तब वह अपने सब दल बल समेत परमेश्वर के भक्त के यहां लौट आया, और उसके सम्मुख खड़ा हो कर कहने लगा सुन, अब मैं ने जान लिया है, कि समस्त पृथ्वी में इस्राएल को छोड़ और कहीं परमेश्वर नहीं है। इसलिये अब अपने दास की भेंट ग्रहण कर।
16 एलीशा ने कहा, यहोवा जिसके सम्मुख मैं उपस्थित रहता हूँ उसके जीवन की शपथ मैं कुछ भेंट न लूंगा, और जब उसने उसको बहुत विवश किया कि भेंट को ग्रहण करे, तब भी वह इनकार ही करता रहा।
17 तब नामान ने कहा, अच्छा, तो तेरे दास को दो खच्चर मिट्टी मिले, क्योंकि आगे को तेरा दास यहोवा को छोड़ और किसी ईश्वर को होमबलि वा मेलबलि न चढ़ाएगा।
18 एक बात तो यहोवा तेरे दास के लिये क्षमा करे, कि जब मेरा स्वामी रिम्मोन के भवन में दण्डवत करने को जाए, और वह मेरे हाथ का सहारा ले, और यों मुझे भी रिम्मोन के भवन में दण्डवत करनी पड़े, तब यहोवा तेरे दास का यह काम क्षमा करे कि मैं रिम्मोन के भवन में दण्डवत करूं।
19 उसने उस से कहा, कुशल से बिदा हो।
20 वह उसके यहां से थोड़ी दूर जला गया था, कि परमेश्वर के भक्त एलीशा का सेवक गेहजी सोचने लगा, कि मेरे स्वामी ने तो उस अरामी नामान को ऐसा ही छोड़ दिया है कि जो वह ले आया था उसको उसने न लिया, परन्तु यहोवा के जीवन की शपथ मैं उसके पीछे दौड़कर उस से कुछ न कुछ ले लूंगा।
21 तब गेहजी नामान के पीछे दौड़ा, और नामान किसी को अपने पीछे दौड़ता हूआ देख कर, उस से मिलने को रथ से उतर पड़ा, और पूछा, सब कुशल क्षेम तो है?
22 उसने कहा, हां, सब कुशल है; परन्तु मेरे स्वामी ने मुझे यह कहने को भेजा है, कि एप्रैम के पहाड़ी देश से भविष्यद्वक्ताओं के चेलों में से दो जवान मेरे यहां अभी आए हैं, इसदिये उनके लिये एक किक्कार चान्दी और दो जोड़े वस्त्र दे।
23 नामान ने कहा, दो किक्कार लेने को प्रसन्न हो, तब उसने उस से बहुत बिनती कर के दो किक्कार चान्दी अलग थैलियों में बान्ध कर, दो जोड़े वस्त्र समेत अपने दो सेवकों पर लाद दिया, और वे उन्हें उसके आगे आगे ले चले।
24 जब वह टीले के पास पहुंचा, तब उसने उन वस्तुओं को उन से ले कर घर में रख दिया, और उन मनुष्यों को बिदा किया, और वे चले गए।
25 और वह भीतर जा कर, अपने स्वामी के साम्हने खड़ा हुआ। एलीशा ने उस से पूछा, हे गेहजी तू कहां से आता है? उसने कहा, तेरा दास तो कहीं नहीं गया,
26 उसने उस से कहा, जब वह पुरुष इधर मुंह फेर कर तुझ से मिलने को अपने रथ पर से उतरा, तब वह पूरा हाल मुझे मालूम था; क्या यह समय चान्दी वा वस्त्र वा जलपाई वा दाख की बारियां, भेड़-बकरियां, गायबैल और दास-दासी लेने का है?
27 इस कारण से नामान का कोढ़ तुझे और तेरे वंश को सदा लगा रहेगा। तब वह हिम सा श्वेत कोढ़ी हो कर उसके साम्हने से चला गया।
1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
16 But he said, As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the Lord.
18 In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon thy servant in this thing.
19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?
22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
24 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.
26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;
3 And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
4 That the Lord may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
7 But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
8 And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say on.
15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother’s: for it was his from the Lord.
16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.
17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
18 And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
19 Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
23 Then king Solomon sware by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
24 Now therefore, as the Lord liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.
26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the Lord; that he might fulfil the word of the Lord, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
32 And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the Lord.
34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.
37 For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the Lord, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.
46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.