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2 Kings 2
New King James Version
2 Kings 2
New King James Version
Elijah Ascends to Heaven
2 And it came to pass, when the Lord was about to (A)take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with (B)Elisha from Gilgal. 2 Then Elijah said to Elisha, (C)“Stay here, please, for the Lord has sent me on to Bethel.”
But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and (D)as your soul lives, I will not leave you!” So they went down to Bethel.
3 Now (E)the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that the Lord will take away your master [a]from over you today?”
And he said, “Yes, I know; keep silent!”
4 Then Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, please, for the Lord has sent me on to Jericho.”
But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you!” So they came to Jericho.
5 Now the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over you today?”
So he answered, “Yes, I know; keep silent!”
6 Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here, please, for the Lord has sent me on to the Jordan.”
But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you!” So the two of them went on. 7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood facing them at a distance, while the two of them stood by the Jordan. 8 Now Elijah took his mantle, rolled it up, and struck the water; and (F)it was divided this way and that, so that the two of them crossed over on dry (G)ground.
9 And so it was, when they had crossed over, that Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask! What may I do for you, before I am taken away from you?”
Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.”
10 So he said, “You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.” 11 Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly (H)a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and separated the two of them; and Elijah (I)went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried out, (J)“My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” So he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces. 13 He also took up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan. 14 Then he took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and struck the water, and said, “Where is the Lord God of Elijah?” And when he also had struck the water, (K)it was divided this way and that; and Elisha crossed over.
15 Now when the sons of the prophets who were (L)from[b] Jericho saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him, and bowed to the ground before him. 16 Then they said to him, “Look now, there are fifty strong men with your servants. Please let them go and search for your master, (M)lest perhaps the Spirit of the Lord has taken him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.”
And he said, “You shall not send anyone.”
17 But when they urged him till he was (N)ashamed, he said, “Send them!” Therefore they sent fifty men, and they searched for three days but did not find him. 18 And when they came back to him, for he had stayed in Jericho, he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?”
Elisha Performs Miracles
19 Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please notice, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the ground barren.”
20 And he said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him. 21 Then he went out to the source of the water, and (O)cast in the salt there, and said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘I have [c]healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’ ” 22 So the water remains (P)healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.
23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
24 So he turned around and looked at them, and (Q)pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
25 Then he went from there to (R)Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 2:3 Lit. from your head
- 2 Kings 2:15 Or at Jericho opposite him saw
- 2 Kings 2:21 purified
2 Kings 2
New American Standard Bible
2 Kings 2
New American Standard Bible
Elijah Taken to Heaven
2 Now it came about, when the Lord was about to (A)bring Elijah up by a [a]whirlwind to heaven, that Elijah left (B)Gilgal with (C)Elisha. 2 And Elijah said to Elisha, “(D)Stay here please, for the Lord has sent me as far as (E)Bethel.” But Elisha said, “(F)As surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel. 3 Then (G)the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel went out to Elisha and said to him, “Are you aware that the Lord will take away your master from over [b]you today?” And he said, “Yes, I am aware; say nothing about it.”
4 And Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please (H)stay here, for the Lord has sent me to (I)Jericho.” But he said, “(J)As surely as the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho. 5 Then (K)the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho approached Elisha and said to him, “(L)Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over [c]you today?” And he [d]answered, “Yes, I know; say nothing about it.” 6 And Elijah said to him, “Please (M)stay here, for the Lord has sent me to (N)the Jordan.” But he said, “As surely as the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.
7 Now (O)fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite them at a distance, while the two of them stood by the Jordan. 8 And Elijah (P)took his coat, folded it, and (Q)struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask me what I should do for you before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please let a (R)double portion of your spirit be upon me.” 10 He said, “You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if you (S)see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.” 11 And as they were walking along and talking, behold, (T)a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and they separated the two of them. Then Elijah went up by a [e]whirlwind to heaven. 12 And Elisha was watching it and he was crying out, “(U)My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he did not see [f]Elijah again. Then (V)he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces. 13 He also took up the coat of Elijah that had fallen from him, and he went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan. 14 Then he took the coat of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters, and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” And when he also had (W)struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha crossed over.
Elisha Succeeds Elijah
15 Now when (X)the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho opposite him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah has settled on Elisha.” And they came to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him. 16 Then they said to him, “Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; please let them go and search for your master, in case (Y)the Spirit of the Lord has taken him up and cast him on some mountain or into some valley.” But he said, “You shall not send anyone.” 17 Yet when (Z)they urged him until he was ashamed to refuse, he said, “Send them.” So they sent fifty men; and they searched for three days, but did not find him. 18 They returned to him while he was staying in Jericho; and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?”
19 Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold now, the site of the city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad and the land [g]is unfruitful.” 20 And he said, “Bring me a new jar, and put salt [h]in it.” So they brought it to him. 21 Then he went out to the spring of water and (AA)threw salt [i]in it and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘I have [j]purified these waters; there shall not come from there death or [k]unfruitfulness any longer.’” 22 So the waters have been [l]purified to this day, in accordance with the word of Elisha which he spoke.
23 Now he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the road, some young boys came out from the city and (AB)ridiculed him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” 24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he (AC)cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two [m]of the boys. 25 He then went on from there to (AD)Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 2:1 Or windstorm
- 2 Kings 2:3 Lit your head
- 2 Kings 2:5 Lit your head
- 2 Kings 2:5 Lit said
- 2 Kings 2:11 Or windstorm
- 2 Kings 2:12 Lit him
- 2 Kings 2:19 Lit causes miscarriages
- 2 Kings 2:20 Lit there
- 2 Kings 2:21 Lit there
- 2 Kings 2:21 Lit healed
- 2 Kings 2:21 Lit anything causing miscarriages
- 2 Kings 2:22 Lit healed
- 2 Kings 2:24 Lit boys from them
2 Các Vua 2
New Vietnamese Bible
2 Các Vua 2
New Vietnamese Bible
Ê-li Được Cất Lên Trời
2 Đang khi CHÚA muốn cất Ê-li lên trời trong một cơn gió trốt thì Ê-li và Ê-li-sê từ Ghinh-ganh đi ra. 2 Ê-li nói với Ê-li-sê: “Hãy ở lại đây. Vì CHÚA sai ta đi đến Bê-tên.”
Nhưng Ê-li-sê đáp: “Nguyền xin CHÚA hằng sống chứng giám, hễ ngày nào thầy còn sống, thì con sẽ không rời xa thầy.” Vậy họ cùng nhau đi xuống Bê-tên.
3 Một nhóm tiên tri ở Bê-tên đi ra gặp Ê-li-sê và nói: “Anh há không biết là hôm nay CHÚA sẽ cất thầy anh đi sao?”
Ông đáp: “Tôi biết. Xin anh em đừng nói gì nữa.”
4 Ê-li lại nói với ông: “Ê-li-sê, hãy ở lại đây. Vì CHÚA sai tôi đến Giê-ri-cô.”
Nhưng ông đáp: “Nguyền xin CHÚA hằng sống chứng giám, hễ ngày nào thầy còn sống, thì con sẽ không rời xa thầy.” Vậy họ cùng nhau đi đến Giê-ri-cô.
5 Một nhóm tiên tri ở Giê-ri-cô đến gần Ê-li-sê và bảo ông: “Anh há không biết là hôm nay CHÚA sẽ cất thầy anh đi sao?”
Ông đáp: “Tôi biết. Xin anh em đừng nói gì nữa.”
6 Bấy giờ Ê-li nói với ông: “Hãy ở lại đây. Vì CHÚA sai tôi đi đến Giô-đanh.”
Nhưng ông đáp: “Nguyền xin CHÚA hằng sống chứng giám, hễ ngày nào thầy còn sống, thì con sẽ không rời xa thầy.” Vậy hai người cùng nhau tiếp tục lên đường.
7 Có một nhóm năm mươi tiên tri đi theo và đứng cách xa họ khi hai người đang đứng ở bờ sông Giô-đanh. 8 Bấy giờ Ê-li lấy chiếc áo choàng của mình, cuộn lại, và đập vào mặt nước; nước sông liền rẽ ra hai bên và hai người đi ngang qua trên đất khô.
9 Khi họ đã qua bờ bên kia, Ê-li nói với Ê-li-sê: “Hãy nói cho ta biết ngươi muốn ta làm gì cho ngươi, bởi vì ta sắp được cất đi rồi.”
Ê-li-sê đáp: “Con mong được thần của thầy tác động trên con gấp đôi.”
10 Ê-li nói: “Ngươi xin một điều khó quá. Tuy nhiên, nếu ngươi thấy ta, khi ta được cất đi, thì ngươi sẽ được ban cho điều ấy; còn như ngươi không thấy, thì ngươi sẽ không nhận được.”
11 Đang khi họ tiếp tục đi và nói chuyện với nhau, thì một xe chiến mã bằng lửa kéo bằng các ngựa lửa chạy đến tách hai người ra, và Ê-li được cất lên trời trong một cơn gió trốt. 12 Ê-li-sê nhìn theo và la lên: “Cha ơi, cha ơi! Các xe chiến mã và kỵ binh của Y-sơ-ra-ên!” Ông cứ nhìn theo cho đến khi không còn thấy Ê-li nữa, rồi ông nắm lấy áo của mình mà xé toạc ra làm hai.
Ê-li-sê Thừa Kế Chức Vụ Của Ê-li
13 Ê-li-sê nhặt lấy chiếc áo choàng của Ê-li rơi lại và đi về. Ông đến đứng ở bờ sông Giô-đanh. 14 Ông lấy chiếc áo choàng của Ê-li rơi lại đập vào mặt nước và nói: “CHÚA là Đức Chúa Trời của Ê-li ở đâu?” Khi ông đập vào mặt nước, nước sông rẽ ra làm hai, và Ê-li-sê đi qua sông.
15 Khi nhóm tiên tri ở Giê-ri-cô thấy ông từ xa, thì họ nói với nhau: “Thần của Ê-li đã ngự trên Ê-li-sê rồi.” Họ đến gặp ông và cúi đầu sát đất trước mặt ông. 16 Họ nói với ông: “Xem này, chúng tôi có năm mươi người lực lưỡng ở đây sẵn sàng phục vụ ngài. Xin hãy cho họ đi tìm thầy của ngài. Có thể Thần của CHÚA đã cất lấy người rồi đặt người xuống một nơi nào đó trên núi hay trong thung lũng chăng.”
Ông đáp: “Đừng, bảo họ đừng đi tìm.”
17 Nhưng họ cứ nài nỉ mãi đến độ ông cảm thấy ái ngại mà từ chối, nên ông nói, “Thôi bảo họ đi đi.” Vậy năm mươi người ấy đi tìm hết ba ngày nhưng không tìm được Ê-li. 18 Khi họ trở về gặp ông, lúc ấy ông còn đang ở Giê-ri-cô, ông nói với họ: “Có phải tôi đã bảo là đừng đi không?”
Ê-li-sê Làm Phép Lạ
19 Bấy giờ dân trong thành đến nói với Ê-li-sê: “Như chúa thấy đó, địa thế của thành thật tốt, nhưng nguồn nước thì lại không tốt, nên trong xứ không trồng tỉa gì được.”
20 Ông bảo: “Hãy bỏ muối vào trong một bát còn mới và đem đến cho tôi.” Vậy họ đem bát muối đến cho ông.
21 Ông đi đến nguồn nước, đổ bát muối xuống nước và nói: “CHÚA phán như vầy: Ta chữa lành nguồn nước này. Từ nay về sau, nguồn nước này sẽ không gây nên chết chóc và tình trạng vô sinh không còn nữa.”[a] 22 Vậy nguồn nước đó đã được chữa lành cho đến ngày nay, y như lời Ê-li-sê đã nói.
23 Ê-li-sê rời khỏi nơi đó đi lên Bê-tên. Đang đi dọc đường, một bọn trẻ từ trong thành ra, chúng chế nhạo ông rằng: “Lên đi, ông sói đầu! Lên đi, ông sói đầu!” 24 Ông quay lại, thấy chúng, ông bèn nhân danh CHÚA mà rủa chúng. Bấy giờ có hai con gấu cái từ trong rừng đi ra cấu xé bốn mươi hai cậu trẻ đó. 25 Đoạn từ đó ông lên núi Cạt-mên, rồi trở về Sa-ma-ri.
Footnotes
- 2:21 Ctd: không trồng tỉa gì được
2 Kings 2
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2 Kings 2
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Elijah Taken Up to Heaven
2 When the Lord was about to take(A) Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind,(B) Elijah and Elisha(C) were on their way from Gilgal.(D) 2 Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here;(E) the Lord has sent me to Bethel.”
But Elisha said, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.”(F) So they went down to Bethel.
3 The company(G) of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and asked, “Do you know that the Lord is going to take your master from you today?”
“Yes, I know,” Elisha replied, “so be quiet.”
4 Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here, Elisha; the Lord has sent me to Jericho.(H)”
And he replied, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
5 The company(I) of the prophets at Jericho went up to Elisha and asked him, “Do you know that the Lord is going to take your master from you today?”
“Yes, I know,” he replied, “so be quiet.”
6 Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here;(J) the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.”(K)
And he replied, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.”(L) So the two of them walked on.
7 Fifty men from the company of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing the place where Elijah and Elisha had stopped at the Jordan. 8 Elijah took his cloak,(M) rolled it up and struck(N) the water with it. The water divided(O) to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry(P) ground.
9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?”
“Let me inherit a double(Q) portion of your spirit,”(R) Elisha replied.
10 “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”
11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire(S) and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven(T) in a whirlwind.(U) 12 Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots(V) and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore(W) it in two.
13 Elisha then picked up Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. 14 He took the cloak(X) that had fallen from Elijah and struck(Y) the water with it. “Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.
15 The company(Z) of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, “The spirit(AA) of Elijah is resting on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him. 16 “Look,” they said, “we your servants have fifty able men. Let them go and look for your master. Perhaps the Spirit(AB) of the Lord has picked him up(AC) and set him down on some mountain or in some valley.”
“No,” Elisha replied, “do not send them.”
17 But they persisted until he was too embarrassed(AD) to refuse. So he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find him. 18 When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”
Healing of the Water
19 The people of the city said to Elisha, “Look, our lord, this town is well situated, as you can see, but the water is bad and the land is unproductive.”
20 “Bring me a new bowl,” he said, “and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.
21 Then he went out to the spring and threw(AE) the salt into it, saying, “This is what the Lord says: ‘I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive.’” 22 And the water has remained pure(AF) to this day, according to the word Elisha had spoken.
Elisha Is Jeered
23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered(AG) at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse(AH) on them in the name(AI) of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys. 25 And he went on to Mount Carmel(AJ) and from there returned to Samaria.
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