1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
1以利沙幫助寡婦還債一位先知門徒的妻子哀求以利沙說：“你僕人我的丈夫死了，你知道你的僕人是敬畏耶和華的。現在債主來要抓我的兩個孩子作他的奴僕。”
2Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”
2以利沙對他說：“我可以為你作甚麼呢？告訴我，你家裡有甚麼呢？”她說：“婢女家中除了一瓶油以外，甚麼也沒有。”
3Then he said, “Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don’t borrow just a few.
3以利沙說：“你到外面去向你所有的鄰居借空器皿，要盡量多借。
4You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that which is full.”
4然後回去，把你和你兒子關在家裡，你要把油倒在所有器皿裡面，裝滿了的就放在一邊。”
5So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out.
5於是婦人離開了他，把自己和兒子關在門內；她的兒子不住地把器皿拿到她面前，她就把油倒進去。
6It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” The oil stopped flowing.
6器皿都倒滿了的時候，她對兒子說：“再拿一個器皿給我。”他對她說：“再沒有器皿了。”油就止住了。
7Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”
7她去告訴神人，神人說：“你去把油賣掉，還清你的債務，你和你的兒子可以靠著剩下的過活。”
8It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
8書念婦人接待以利沙有一天，以利沙經過書念的時候，那裡有一位貴婦堅持留他吃飯；於是以後每逢他從那裡經過，他總進去吃飯。
9She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.
9那婦人對她的丈夫說：“你看，我知道那常從我們這裡經過的，是個聖潔的神人。
10Please let us make a little room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.”
10讓我們蓋一間有牆的小閣，為他在裡面擺設睡床、桌子、椅子和燈盞；他到我們這裡來的時候，就可以到那裡休息。”
11One day he came there, and he turned into the room and lay there.
11有一天，以利沙來到那裡，就上小閣休息，在那裡躺下。
12He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
12他對他的僕人基哈西說：“你去叫這書念的婦人來。”於是他叫了她來，站在他的面前。
13He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”
13他對他的僕人說：“你對她說：‘看哪！你為我們費了這麼多心思。我可以為你作些甚麼呢？你有事要我替你向王或軍長說的嗎？’”她說：“我住在自己的人民中間。”
14He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”
14於是他說：“我到底可以為她作些甚麼呢？”基哈西說：“她沒有兒子，而她的丈夫又老了。”
15He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door.
15於是以利沙對他說：“再叫她來。”他就再去叫了她來，她就站在門口。
16He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.”
16以利沙說：“明年這個時分，時候到了，你必懷抱一個兒子。”她說：“神人哪！不要欺哄你的婢女。”
17The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.
17蒙恩生子這婦人果然懷了孕，到明年這個時分，時候到了，她就生了一個兒子，正如以利沙對她所說的。
18When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.
18孩子中暑死亡孩子漸漸長大。有一天，他出來到收割的人中找他的父親。
19He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
19他對他的父親說：“我的頭啊！我的頭啊！”他的父親對僕人說：“把他抱到他母親那裡。”
20When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
20於是僕人把他抱著，送到他母親那裡。孩子坐在他母親的雙膝上，到中午就死了。
21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out.
21她把孩子抱上小閣，放在神人的床上；她把他關在裡面，就出去了。
22She called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.”
22她呼喚她的丈夫，說：“請你派一個僕人和一頭驢子給我。我要趕到神人那裡，立刻就回來。”
23He said, “Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” She said, “It’s alright.”
23他說：“為甚麼你要在今天去見他呢？今天既不是月朔，也不是安息日。”她說：“一切都平安。”
24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”
24於是她把驢套上鞍，對她的僕人說：“你來趕驢子走吧，除非我告訴你，否則不要因為我慢下來。”
25So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.
25於是她起程，去到迦密山神人那裡。神人從遠處看見她的時候，就對他的僕人基哈西說：“看哪！書念的婦人在那邊呢！
26Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?’” She answered, “It is well.”
26現在你跑去迎接她，對她說：‘你平安嗎？你的丈夫平安嗎？你的兒子平安嗎？’”她說：“都平安。”
27When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”
27她來到山上神人那裡，就抱住神人的腳；基哈西上前要推開她，但神人說：“由她吧，因為她的心靈很痛苦。耶和華隱瞞我，沒有告訴我。”
28Then she said, “Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn’t I say, Do not deceive me?”
28她說：“我有向我主求過兒子嗎？我不是說過：‘不要欺哄我’的嗎？”
29Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the face of the child.”
29使死去的孩子復活神人對基哈西說：“你束上腰，手裡拿著我的手杖前去；不論遇見的是誰，都不要向他問安；若是有人向你問安，你也不要回答他，只要去把我的手杖放在孩子的臉上。”
30The mother of the child said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” He arose, and followed her.
30孩子的母親說：“我指著永活的耶和華和你的性命起誓，我決不會離開你。”神人只好起身隨她而去。
31Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, “The child has not awakened.”
31基哈西在他們前面去了，把手杖放在孩子的臉上，可是沒有聲音，也沒有反應；於是他回來迎著以利沙，告訴他說：“那孩子還沒有醒過來。”
32When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
32以利沙來到書念婦人的家，看見孩子已經死了，躺在他的床上。
33He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.
33於是他進去，把自己和孩子二人關在門內，然後向耶和華禱告。
34He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm.
34他又上床伏在孩子身上，使自己的口對著孩子的口，自己的眼對著孩子的眼，自己的手放在孩子的手上；他伏在孩子身上，孩子的身體就漸漸溫暖起來。
35Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
35然後他下來在房內來回走了一趟，再上去，伏在孩子身上；那孩子打了七個噴嚏，跟著就張開了眼睛。
36He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”
36神人呼喚基哈西，說：“你去叫那書念的婦人來。”他就去叫她，她來到他那裡，他就說：“把你的兒子抱起來。”
37Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.
37於是她進去，在他的腳前下拜，俯伏在地上；然後把兒子抱起來，出去了。
38Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
38以利沙以麵解毒以利沙又回到吉甲，那地正發生饑荒。先知的門徒坐在他面前。他對他的僕人說：“把大鍋放在火上，給先知的門徒們煮點東西吃。”
39One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them.
39有一個人到田野那裡去採摘野菜。他找到一棵野瓜藤，就摘下藤上的野瓜裝滿了他的衣服。他回來，把瓜切了放入煮東西的鍋中，他們不知道是甚麼東西。
40So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” They could not eat of it.
40後來他們倒出來給眾人吃，他們在吃鍋裡的東西的時候，都慘叫起來，說：“神人哪！鍋中有致死的毒物！”他們就不能吃了。
41But he said, “Then bring meal.” He cast it into the pot; and he said, “Pour out for the people, that they may eat.” There was no harm in the pot.
41他說：“拿些麵給我。”他把麵放在鍋中，說：“倒出來給眾人吃吧。”鍋裡就沒有毒了。
42A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”
42二十個餅給一百人吃飽有一個人從巴力．沙利沙來，他帶給神人二十個用初熟大麥做的餅，還有新穗子；以利沙說：“把這些給眾人吃吧！”
43His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But he said, “Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yahweh, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’”
43他的僕人說：“我怎能把這一些食物擺在一百個人面前呢？”神人說：“給眾人吃吧，因為耶和華這樣說：‘他們要吃，而且還有剩下的。’”
44So he set it before them, and they ate, and left some of it, according to the word of Yahweh.
44於是僕人擺在眾人面前，他們都吃，而且還有剩下的，正如耶和華所說的。