2 Kings 6

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	SMITH VAN DYKE
1 The guild prophets once said to Elisha: "There is not enough room for us to continue to live here with you.	1 وقال بنو الانبياء لاليشع هوذا الموضع الذي نحن مقيمون فيه امامك ضيّق علينا.
2 Let us go to the Jordan, where by getting one beam apiece we can build ourselves a place to live." "Go," Elisha said.	2 فلنذهب الى الاردن ونأخذ من هناك كل واحد خشبة ونعمل لانفسنا هناك موضعا لنقيم فيه. فقال اذهبوا.
3 "Please agree to accompany your servants," one of them requested. "Yes, I will come," he replied.	3 فقال واحد اقبل واذهب مع عبيدك. فقال اني اذهب.
4 So he went with them, and when they arrived at the Jordan they began to fell trees.	4 فانطلق معهم ولما وصلوا الى الاردن قطعوا خشبا.
5 While one of them was felling a tree trunk, the iron axhead slipped into the water. "O master," he cried out, "it was borrowed!"	5 واذ كان واحد يقطع خشبة وقع الحديد في الماء. فصرخ وقال آه يا سيدي لانه عارية.
6 "Where did it fall?" asked the man of God. When he pointed out the spot, Elisha cut off a stick, threw it into the water, and brought the iron to the surface.	6 فقال رجل الله اين سقط. فاراه الموضع فقطع عودا والقاه هناك فطفا الحديد.
7 "Pick it up," he said. And the man reached down and grasped it.	7 فقال ارفعه لنفسك. فمدّ يده واخذه
8 When the king of Aram was waging war on Israel, he would make plans with his servants to attack a particular place.	8 واما ملك ارام فكان يحارب اسرائيل وتآمر مع عبيده قائلا في المكان الفلاني تكون محلتي.
9 But the man of God would send word to the king of Israel, "Be careful! Do not pass by this place, for Aram will attack there."	9 فارسل رجل الله الى ملك اسرائيل يقول احذر من ان تعبر بهذا الموضع لان الاراميين حالّون هناك.
10 So the king of Israel would send word to the place which the man of God had indicated, and alert it; then they would be on guard. This happened several times.	10 فارسل ملك اسرائيل الى الموضع الذي قال له عنه رجل الله وحذره منه وتحفظ هناك لا مرّة ولا مرتين.
11 Greatly disturbed over this, the king of Aram called together his officers. "Will you not tell me," he asked them, "who among us is for the king of Israel?"	11 فاضطرب قلب ملك ارام من هذا الأمر ودعا عبيده وقال لهم أما تخبرونني من منا هو لملك اسرائيل.
12 "No one, my lord king," answered one of the officers. "The Israelite prophet Elisha can tell the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom."	12 فقال واحد من عبيده ليس هكذا يا سيدي الملك. ولكن اليشع النبي الذي في اسرائيل يخبر ملك اسرائيل بالأمور التي تتكلم بها في مخدع مضجعك.
13 "Go, find out where he is," he said, "so that I may take him captive." Informed that Elisha was in Dothan,	13 فقال اذهبوا وانظروا اين هو فأرسل وآخذه فأخبر وقيل له هوذا في دوثان.
14 he sent there a strong force with horses and chariots. They arrived by night and surrounded the city.	14 فارسل الى هناك خيلا ومركبات وجيشا ثقيلا وجاءوا ليلا واحاطوا بالمدينة.
15 Early the next morning, when the attendant of the man of God arose and went out, he saw the force with its horses and chariots surrounding the city. "Alas!" he said to Elisha. "What shall we do, my lord?"	15 فبكر خادم رجل الله وقام وخرج واذا جيش محيط بالمدينة وخيل ومركبات. فقال غلامه له آه يا سيدي كيف نعمل.
16 "Do not be afraid," Elisha answered. "Our side outnumbers theirs."	16 فقال لا تخف لان الذين معنا اكثر من الذين معهم.
17 Then he prayed, "O LORD, open his eyes, that he may see." And the LORD opened the eyes of the servant, so that he saw the mountainside filled with horses and fiery chariots around Elisha.	17 وصلى اليشع وقال يا رب افتح عينيه فيبصر. ففتح الرب عيني الغلام فابصر واذ الجبل مملوء خيلا ومركبات نار حول اليشع.
18 When the Arameans came down to get him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, "Strike this people blind, I pray you." And in answer to the prophet's prayer the LORD struck them blind.	18 ولما نزلوا اليه صلى اليشع الى الرب وقال اضرب هؤلاء الامم بالعمى. فضربهم بالعمى كقول اليشع.
19 Then Elisha said to them: "This is the wrong road, and this is the wrong city. Follow me! I will take you to the man you want." And he led them to Samaria.	19 فقال لهم اليشع ليست هذه هي الطريق ولا هذه هي المدينة. اتبعوني فاسير بكم الى الرجل الذي تفتشون عليه. فسار بهم الى السامرة.
20 When they entered Samaria, Elisha prayed, "O LORD, open their eyes that they may see." The LORD opened their eyes, and they saw that they were inside Samaria.	20 فلما دخلوا السامرة قال اليشع يا رب افتح اعين هؤلاء فيبصروا. ففتح الرب اعينهم فابصروا واذا هم في وسط السامرة.
21 When the king of Israel saw them, he asked, "Shall I kill them, my father?"	21 فقال ملك اسرائيل لاليشع لما رآهم هل اضرب هل اضرب يا ابي.
22 "You must not kill them," replied Elisha. "Do you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword or bow? Serve them bread and water. Let them eat and drink, and then go back to their master."	22 فقال لا تضرب. تضرب الذين سبيتهم بسيفك وبقوسك. ضع خبزا وماء امامهم فيأكلوا ويشربوا ثم ينطلقوا الى سيدهم.
23 The king spread a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk he sent them away, and they went back to their master. No more Aramean raiders came into the land of Israel.	23 فأولم لهم وليمة عظيمة فأكلوا وشربوا ثم اطلقهم فانطلقوا الى سيدهم. ولم تعد ايضا جيوش ارام تدخل ارض اسرائيل
24 After this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, mustered his whole army and laid siege to Samaria.	24 وكان بعد ذلك ان بنهدد ملك ارام جمع كل جيشه وصعد فحاصر السامرة.
25 Because of the siege the famine in Samaria was so severe that an ass's head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a fourth of a kab of wild onion for five pieces of silver.	25 وكان جوع شديد في السامرة. وهم حاصروها حتى صار راس الحمار بثمانين من الفضة وربع القاب من زبل الحمام بخمس من الفضة.
26 One day, as the king of Israel was walking on the city wall, a woman cried out to him, "Help, my lord king!"	26 وبينما كان ملك اسرائيل جائزا على السور صرخت امرأة اليه تقول خلّص يا سيدي الملك.
27 "No," he replied, "the LORD help you! Where could I find help for you: from the threshing floor or the winepress?"	27 فقال لا يخلصك الرب. من اين اخلّصك. أمن البيدر او من المعصرة.
28 Then the king asked her, "What is your trouble?" She replied: "This woman said to me, 'Give up your son that we may eat him today; then tomorrow we will eat my son.'	28 ثم قال لها الملك مالك. فقالت ان هذه المرأة قد قالت لي هاتي ابنك فنأكله اليوم ثم نأكل ابني غدا.
29 So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Now give up your son that we may eat him.' But she hid her son."	29 فسلقنا ابني واكلناه ثم قلت لها في اليوم الآخر هاتي ابنك فنأكله فخبأت ابنها.
30 When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his garments. And as he was walking on the wall, the people saw that he was wearing sackcloth underneath, next to his skin.	30 فلما سمع الملك كلام المرأة مزّق ثيابه وهو مجتاز على السور فنظر الشعب واذا مسح من داخل على جسده.
31 "May God do thus and so to me," the king exclaimed, "if the head of Elisha, son of Shaphat, stays on him today!"	31 فقال هكذا يصنع لي الله وهكذا يزيد ان قام راس اليشع بن شافاط عليه اليوم.
32 Meanwhile, Elisha was sitting in his house in conference with the elders. The king had sent a man ahead before he himself should come to him. Elisha had said to the elders: "Do you know that this son of a murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? When the messenger comes, see that you close the door and hold it fast against him. His master's footsteps are echoing behind him."	32 وكان اليشع جالسا في بيته والشيوخ جلوسا عنده. فارسل رجل من امامه. وقبلما أتى الرسول اليه قال للشيوخ هل رايتم ان ابن القاتل هذا قد ارسل لكي يقطع راسي. انظروا اذا جاء الرسول فاغلقوا الباب واحصروه عند الباب. أليس صوت قدمي سيده وراءه.
33 While Elisha was still speaking, the king came down to him and said, "This evil is from the LORD. Why should I trust in the LORD any longer?"	33 وبينما هو يكلمهم اذا بالرسول نازل اليه. فقال هوذا هذا الشر هو من قبل الرب. ماذا انتظر من الرب بعد