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II Các Vua 2
Vietnamese Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
II Các Vua 2
Vietnamese Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
Ê-li được tiếp về trời
2 Gần đến lúc CHÚA muốn mang Ê-li lên trời trong một cơn gió lốc. Trong khi Ê-li và Ê-li-sê đang rời Ghinh-ganh
2 thì Ê-li bảo Ê-li-sê, “Anh hãy ở đây. CHÚA bảo tôi đi đến Bê-tên.”
Nhưng Ê-li-sê nói, “Tôi chỉ CHÚA hằng sống và chỉ mạng sống thầy mà thề, tôi sẽ chẳng rời thầy.” Vậy hai người đi đến Bê-tên.
3 Có một nhóm các nhà tiên tri [a] ở Bê-tên đến nói cùng Ê-li-sê rằng, “Anh có biết hôm nay CHÚA sẽ mang thầy của anh đi không?”
Ê-li-sê đáp, “Tôi biết rồi. Thôi im đi.”
4 Ê-li bảo ông, “Ê-li-sê, anh hãy ở đây vì CHÚA bảo tôi đến Giê-ri-cô.”
Nhưng Ê-li-sê nói, “Tôi chỉ CHÚA hằng sống và chỉ mạng sống thầy mà thề, tôi sẽ chẳng rời thầy.” Vậy hai người đi đến Giê-ri-cô.
5 Nhóm tiên tri ở Giê-ri-cô đến nói với Ê-li-sê rằng, “Anh có biết hôm nay CHÚA sẽ mang thầy của anh đi không?”
Ê-li-sê đáp, “Tôi biết rồi. Thôi im đi.”
6 Ê-li bảo Ê-li-sê, “Anh hãy ở đây. CHÚA bảo tôi đi đến sông Giô-đanh.”
Nhưng Ê-li-sê nói, “Tôi chỉ CHÚA hằng sống và chỉ mạng sống thầy mà thề, tôi sẽ chẳng rời thầy.” Vậy hai người tiếp tục đi.
7 Có năm mươi người trong nhóm các tiên tri đến đứng khá xa nơi chỗ Ê-li và Ê-li-sê đang đứng bên sông Giô-đanh. 8 Ê-li cởi áo ngoài, cuốn lại đập lên nước. Nước liền rẽ ra hai bên, rồi Ê-li và Ê-li-sê đi qua trên đất khô.
9 Sau khi đã qua sông rồi thì Ê-li hỏi Ê-li-sê, “Anh muốn tôi làm gì cho anh trước khi tôi được mang đi khỏi anh?”
Ê-li-sê trả lời, “Xin để lại cho tôi gấp đôi lượng thần linh của thầy.”
10 Ê-li đáp, “Anh xin một việc khó. Nhưng nếu anh nhìn tôi trong khi tôi được mang đi khỏi anh thì anh sẽ nhận được điều đó. Nếu không thì không được.”
Chúa tiếp Ê-li về trời
11 Trong khi hai người vừa đi vừa nói chuyện thì có một chiếc xe ngựa lửa hiện ra phân rẽ Ê-li và Ê-li-sê. Rồi Ê-li lên trời trong một cơn gió lốc.
12 Ê-li-sê thấy vậy liền kêu lên, “Cha tôi ôi! Cha tôi ôi! Quân xa và ngựa của Ít-ra-en ôi! [b]”
Rồi Ê-li-sê không thấy Ê-li nữa. Quá buồn bã, Ê-li-sê liền nắm xé quần áo mình. 13 Ông lượm cái áo ngoài của Ê-li rớt lại rồi trở về đứng bên bờ sông Giô-đanh. 14 Ê-li-sê lấy áo ngoài của Ê-li đập lên nước và nói, “CHÚA là Thượng Đế của Ê-li ở đâu?” Khi Ê-li-sê đập nước xong, nước liền rẽ ra hai bên cho Ê-li-sê đi ngang qua.
Các nhà tiên tri đi tìm Ê-li
15 Nhóm các tiên tri ở Giê-ri-cô chứng kiến việc ấy liền bảo, “Thần của Ê-li bây giờ ngự trên Ê-li-sê rồi.” Họ liền đến gặp và cúi xuống đất lạy ông. 16 Họ đề nghị với Ê-li-sê, “Có năm mươi người lực lưỡng ở với chúng tôi. Để họ đi tìm thầy của ông. Rất có thể Thần Linh của CHÚA mang Ê-li đặt xuống một hòn núi hay thung lũng nào đó chăng.”
Nhưng Ê-li-sê bảo, “Không. Đừng sai họ đi.”
17 Nhưng các nhóm tiên tri năn nỉ Ê-li-sê quá mức đến nỗi ông không thể từ chối được nữa nên ông nói, “Ừ, thì sai họ đi đi.” Vậy họ sai năm mươi người đi tìm Ê-li trong ba ngày nhưng tìm không ra. 18 Khi họ trở về với Ê-li-sê ở Giê-ri-cô nơi ông đang ở thì ông bảo, “Tôi đã bảo đừng có đi tìm mà mấy anh không chịu nghe.”
Ê-li-sê khiến nước trở nên tinh khiết
19 Các người trong thành thưa với Ê-li-sê, “Thưa thầy, thành nầy rất tốt để ở như thầy thấy. Tuy nhiên nước không tốt cho nên chẳng trồng trọt gì được.”
20 Ê-li-sê bảo, “Mang cho ta một chén mới rồi bỏ muối vào.”
Vậy họ mang chén muối đến cho ông. 21 Ông liền bước ra suối đổ muối lên. Ông bảo, “CHÚA phán như sau: ‘Ta đã chữa lành cho nước nầy. Từ nay về sau nó sẽ không gây chết chóc nữa và cũng không cản trở việc trồng hoa màu.’”
22 Vậy nước được chữa lành cho đến ngày nay theo như lời Ê-li-sê.
Mấy cậu bé trêu chọc Ê-li-sê
23 Từ đó Ê-li-sê đi lên Bê-tên. Trên đường có mấy cậu bé từ thành ra trêu chọc ông. Chúng nó bảo, “Ê ông già trọc đầu, đi lên đi! Đi lên đi, ông già trọc đầu!”
24 Ê-li-sê quay lại nhìn chúng nó và nhân danh CHÚA nguyền rủa chúng. Liền có hai con gấu mẹ trong rừng ra cấu xé bốn mươi hai cậu bé.
25 Ê-li-sê đi đến Cạt-mên và từ đó ông trở về Xa-ma-ri.
Footnotes
- II Các Vua 2:3 nhóm các nhà tiên tri Nguyên văn, “con trai của các nhà tiên tri.” Đây là những nhà tiên tri hay những người đang được huấn luyện để trở thành nhà tiên tri. Xem thêm các câu 5, 6, 15, 17.
- II Các Vua 2:12 Quân xa … ôi! Hay “Quân xa của Ít-ra-en và các lính cỡi ngựa.” Câu nầy có thể nghĩa là “Thượng Đế và các đạo quân trên trời của Ngài.”
2 Kings 2
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2 Kings 2
New International Version
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.
2 Kings 2
King James Version
2 Kings 2
King James Version
2 And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.
3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the Lord hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.
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