¹Elisha said, “Hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says Yahweh, ‘Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will 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 the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.”

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!

³Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, “Why do we sit 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. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only 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.

⁵They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, 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 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on 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!

⁷Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, 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.

⁸When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there 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 aren’t doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let us 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 to 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 the horses tied, and the donkeys 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.

¹¹He called the porters; and they told it to the king’s household within.

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

¹²The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, “I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are 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 take 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!

¹³One of his servants answered, “Please let some take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are consumed. 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 chariots with horses; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, “Go and see.”

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

¹⁵They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. 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.

¹⁶The people went out, and plundered the camp 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 Yahweh.

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.

¹⁷The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke 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.

¹⁸It happened, 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 tomorrow 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 captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.”

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.

²⁰It happened like that to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.

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