2 राजा 7
1 तब एलीशा ने कहा, यहोवा का वचन सुनो, यहोवा यों कहता है, कि कल इसी समय शोमरोन के फाटक में सआ भर मैदा एक शेकेल में और दो सआ जव भी एक शेकेल में बिकेगा।
2 तब उस सरदार ने जिसके हाथ पर राजा तकिया करता था, परमेश्वर के भक्त को उत्तर देकर कहा, सुन, चाहे यहोवा आकाश के झरोखे खोले, तौभी क्या ऐसी बात हो सकेगी? उसने कहा, सुन, तू यह अपनी आंखों से तो देखेगा, परन्तु उस अन्न में से कुछ खाने न पाएगा।
3 और चार कोढ़ी फाटक के बाहर थे; वे आपस में कहने लगे, हम क्यों यहां बैठे बैठे मर जाएं?
4 यदि हम कहें, कि नगर में जाएं, तो वहां मर जाएंगे; क्योंकि वहां मंहगी पड़ी है, और जो हम यहीं बैठे रहें, तौभी मर ही जाएंगे। तो आओ हम अराम की सेना में पकड़े जाएं; यदि वे हम को जिलाए रखें तो हम जीवित रहेंगे, और यदि वे हम को मार डालें, तौभी हम को मरना ही है।
5 तब वे सांझ को अराम की छावनी में जाने को चले, और अराम की छावनी की छोर पर पहुंच कर क्या देखा, कि वहां कोई नहीं है।
6 क्योंकि प्रभु ने अराम की सेना को रथों और घोड़ों की और भारी सेना की सी आहट सुनाई थी, और वे आपस में कहने लगे थे कि, सुनो, इस्राएल के राजा ने हित्ती और मिस्री राजाओं को वेतन पर बुलवाया है कि हम पर चढ़ाई करें।
7 इसलिये वे सांझ को उठ कर ऐसे भाग गए, कि अपने डेरे, घोड़े, गदहे, और छावनी जैसी की तैसी छोड़-छाड़ अपना अपना प्राण ले कर भाग गए।
8 तो जब वे कोढ़ी छावनी की छोर के डेरों के पास पहुंचे, तब एक डेरे में घुस कर खाया पिया, और उस में से चान्दी, सोना और वस्त्र ले जा कर छिपा रखा; फिर लौट कर दूसरे डेरे में घुस गए और उस में से भी ले जा कर छिपा रखा।
9 तब वे आपस में कहने लगे, जो हम कर रहे हैं वह अच्छा काम नहीं है, यह आनन्द के समाचार का दिन है, परन्तु हम किसी को नहीं बताते। जो हम पह फटने तक ठहरे रहें तो हम को दण्ड मिलेगा; सो अब आओ हम राजा के घराने के पास जा कर यह बात बतला दें।
10 तब वे चले और नगर के चौकीदारों को बुलाकर बताया, कि हम जो अराम की छावनी में गए, तो क्या देखा, कि वहां कोई नहीं है, और मनुष्य की कुछ आहट नहीं है, केवल बन्धे हुए घोड़े और गदहे हैं, और डेरे जैसे के तैसे हैं।
11 तब चौकीदारों ने पुकार के राजभवन के भीतर समाचार दिया।
12 और राजा रात ही को उठा, और अपने कर्मचारियों से कहा, मैं तुम्हें बताता हूँ कि अरामियों ने हम से क्या किया है? वे जानते हैं, कि हम लोग भूखे हैं इस कारण वे छावनी में से मैदान में छिपके को यह कहकर गए हैं, कि जब वे नगर से निकलेंगे, तब हम उन को जीवित ही पकड़ कर नगर में घुसने पाएंगे।
13 परन्तु राजा के किसी कर्मचारी ने उत्तर देकर कहा, कि जो घोड़े नगर में बच रहे हैं उन में से लोग पांच घोड़े लें, और उन को भेज कर हम हाल जान लें। ( वे तो इस्राएल की सब भीड़ के समान हैं जो नगर में रह गए हैं वरन इस्राएल की जो भीड़ मर मिट गई है वे उसी के समान हैं। )
14 सो उन्होंने दो रथ और उनके घोड़े लिये, और राजा ने उन को अराम की सेना के पीछे भेजा; और कहा, जाओ, देखो।
15 तब वे यरदन तक उनके पीछे चले गए, और क्या देखा, कि पूरा मार्ग वस्त्रों और पात्रों से भरा पड़ा है, जिन्हें अरामियों ने उतावली के मारे फेंक दिया था; तब दूत लौट आए, और राजा से यह कह सुनाया।
16 तब लोगों ने निकल कर अराम के डेरों को लूट लिया; और यहोवा के वचन के अनुसार एक सआ मैदा एक शेकेल में, और दो सआ जव एक शेकेल में बिकने लगा।
17 और राजा ने उस सरदार को जिसके हाथ पर वह तकिया करता था फाटक का अधिकारी ठहराया; तब वह फाटक में लोगों के पावों के नीचे दब कर मर गया। यह परमेश्वर के भक्त के उस वचन के अनुसार हुआ जो उसने राजा से उसके यहां आने के समय कहा था।
18 परमेश्वर के भक्त ने जैसा राजा से यह कहा था, कि कल इसी समय शोमरोन के फाटक में दो सआ जव एक शेकेल में, और एक सआ मैदा एक शेकेल में बिकेगा, वैसा ही हुआ।
19 और उस सरदार ने परमेश्वर के भक्त को, उत्तर देकर कहा था, कि सुन चाहे यहोवा आकाश में झरोखे खोले तौभी क्या ऐसी बात हो सकेगी? और उसने कहा था, सुन, तू यह अपनी आंखों से तो देखेगा, परन्तु उस अन्न में से खाने न पाएगा।
20 सो उसके साथ ठीक वैसा ही हुआ, अतएव वह फाटक में लोगों के पांवों के नीचे दब कर मर गया।
1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, 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.
2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
3 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?
4 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.
5 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.
6 For the Lord 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 Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
10 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.
11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house within.
12 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.
13 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 Israel 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.
14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
15 And they went after them unto Jordan: 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.
16 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 the Lord.
17 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 God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
18 And it came to pass as the man of God 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:
19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
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.