¹Then 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.

¹Tedaj reče Elizej: Čujte besedo GOSPODOVO: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Jutri ob tem času bode mera bele moke po seklu in dve meri ječmena po seklu pri samarijskih vratih.

²Then 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.

²Nato odgovori vojvoda, na čigar roko se je kralj naslanjal, možu Božjemu in reče: Glej, ko bi GOSPOD odprl zatvornice na nebu, bi li moglo to biti? On pa reče: Glej, videl boš s svojimi očmi, a ne boš jedel od tega!

³And 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?

³Bili so pa štirje gobavci pred vhodom v vrata Samarije; in reko drug drugemu: Kaj tu sedimo, dokler umrjemo?

⁴If 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.

⁴Ako bi rekli: Pojdimo v mesto, lakota je v mestu, in tam nam je umreti; ako pa ostanemo tu, moramo tudi umreti! Pojdimo torej, vrinimo se v vojsko Sircev! Ako nas ohranijo v življenju, bomo živeli, ako nas pobijejo, umrjemo.

⁵And 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.

⁵Vstanejo torej v mraku, da bi šli v tabor Sircev. In ko pridejo do skrajnega konca v taborišču Sircev, glej, ni tu nikogar.

⁶For 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.

⁶Gospod je namreč dal sirski vojski slišati ropot voz in topotanje konj in hrup vojske velike; in rekli so drug drugemu: Glej, kralj Izraelov je najel zoper nas kralje Hetejcev in kralje Egipčanov, da pridero nad nas!

⁷Wherefore 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.

⁷Zato so vstali in pobegnili v mraku, zapustivši svoje šatore in svoje konje in osle v taboru, kakor je bil, in so bežali, da si otmo življenje.

⁸And 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.

⁸Ko torej pridejo oni gobavci na skrajni konec taborišča, stopijo v najbližji šator, jedo in pijejo in odneso odtod srebro, zlato in oblačil ter gredo in skrijejo to; in pridejo zopet in stopijo v drugi šator in pobero ravno tako, odneso in skrijejo.

⁹Then 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.

⁹Tedaj reko drug drugemu: Ne delamo prav. Ta dan je veselega poročila dan, in mi molčimo, ako počakamo do jutranjega svita, nas doleti kazen. Sedaj torej pridite, pojdimo in naznanimo to hiši kraljevi.

¹⁰So 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.

¹⁰In pridejo in kličejo mestni straži, in povedo jim, rekoč: Prišli smo do tabora Sircev, in glej, ni bilo ondi nikogar, ne glasu človeškega, samo konji in osli privezani in šatori, kakor so bili.

¹¹And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.

¹¹In kličejo vratarjem, in ti povedo notri kraljevi družini.

¹²And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now show 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.

¹²In kralj vstane po noči ter reče hlapcem svojim: Povem vam zdaj, kaj so nam naredili Sirci. Vedo, da trpimo lakoto, zato so šli ven iz tabora in se poskrili na polju, češ: kadar pridejo iz mesta, jih ujamemo žive in se spravimo v mesto!

¹³And 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.

¹³Nato odgovori eden hlapcev njegovih in reče: Vzemimo petere ostale konje, ki so preostali v mestu (glej, godi se jim kakor vsej množici Izraelovi, ki je ostala v njem; glej, godi se jim kakor vsej množici Izraelovi, ki je poginila), te pošljimo in oglejmo!

¹⁴They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

¹⁴Tedaj vzamejo dva, voza s konji, in kralj jih pošlje za sirsko vojsko, rekoč: Pojdite in oglejte!

¹⁵And 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.

¹⁵In šli so za njimi do Jordana, in glej, vsa pot je bila polna oblačil in orodja, ki so ga Sirci od sebe vrgli v naglici svoji. In poslanci se vrnejo in sporoče kralju.

¹⁶And 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.

¹⁶Tedaj gre ljudstvo ven in opleni tabor Sircev. In bila je mera bele moke po seklu in dve meri ječmena po seklu, kakor je bil rekel GOSPOD.

¹⁷And 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.

¹⁷Kralj pa je postavil tistega vojvodo, na čigar roko se je naslanjal, da nadzoruje pri vratih; a ljudstvo ga je pogazilo med vrati, da je umrl, kakor je napovedal mož Božji v govoru svojem, ko je bil prišel k njemu kralj.

¹⁸And 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:

¹⁸Kajti izpolnilo se je, kar je bil mož Božji povedal kralju, rekoč: Dve meri ječmena bosta po seklu in mera bele moke po seklu jutri ob tem času pri samarijskih vratih.

¹⁹And 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.

¹⁹In tisti vojvoda je odgovoril možu Božjemu in rekel: Pa glej, ko bi GOSPOD odprl zatvornice na nebu, bi li moglo to biti? On pa mu je rekel: Glej, videl boš s svojimi očmi, a ne boš jedel od tega!In tako se mu je zgodilo: kajti ljudstvo ga je pogazilo med vrati, in je umrl.

²⁰And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.

²⁰In tako se mu je zgodilo: kajti ljudstvo ga je pogazilo med vrati, in je umrl.