2 Reis 7
Almeida Revista e Corrigida 2009
Eliseu prediz a abundância de víveres
7 Então, disse Eliseu: Ouvi a palavra do Senhor; assim diz o Senhor: Amanhã, quase a este tempo, uma medida de farinha haverá por um siclo, e duas medidas de cevada, por um siclo, à porta de Samaria. 2 Porém um capitão, em cuja mão o rei se encostava, respondeu ao homem de Deus e disse: Eis que, ainda que o Senhor fizesse janelas no céu, poder-se-ia fazer isso? E ele disse: Eis que o verás com os teus olhos, porém daí não comerás.
3 E quatro homens leprosos estavam à entrada da porta, os quais disseram uns aos outros: Para que estaremos nós aqui até morrermos? 4 Se dissermos: Entremos na cidade, há fome na cidade, e morreremos aí; e, se ficarmos aqui, também morreremos; vamos nós, pois, agora, e demos conosco no arraial dos siros; se nos deixarem viver, viveremos, e, se nos matarem, tão somente morreremos. 5 E levantaram-se ao crepúsculo, para irem ao arraial dos siros; e, chegando à entrada do arraial dos siros, eis que não havia ali ninguém. 6 Porque o Senhor fizera ouvir no arraial dos siros ruído de carros e ruído de cavalos, como o ruído de um grande exército; de maneira que disseram uns aos outros: Eis que o rei de Israel alugou contra nós os reis dos heteus e os reis dos egípcios, para virem contra nós. 7 Pelo que se levantaram, e fugiram no crepúsculo, e deixaram as suas tendas, e os seus cavalos, e os seus jumentos, e o arraial como estava; e fugiram para salvarem a sua vida. 8 Chegando, pois, estes leprosos à entrada do arraial, entraram numa tenda, e comeram, e beberam, e tomaram dali prata, e ouro, e vestes, e foram, e os esconderam; então, voltaram, e entraram em outra tenda, e dali também tomaram alguma coisa, e a esconderam.
9 Então, disseram uns para os outros: Não fazemos bem; este dia é dia de boas-novas, e nos calamos; se esperarmos até à luz da manhã, algum mal nos sobrevirá; pelo que agora vamos e o anunciemos à casa do rei. 10 Vieram, pois, e bradaram aos porteiros da cidade, e lhes anunciaram, dizendo: Fomos ao arraial dos siros, e eis que lá não havia ninguém, nem voz de homem, porém, só cavalos atados, e jumentos atados, e as tendas como estavam dantes. 11 E chamaram os porteiros, e estes o anunciaram dentro da casa do rei. 12 E o rei se levantou de noite e disse aos seus servos: Agora, vos farei saber o que é que os siros nos fizeram; bem sabem eles que esfaimados estamos; pelo que saíram do arraial, a esconder-se pelo campo, dizendo: Quando saírem da cidade, então, os tomaremos vivos e entraremos na cidade. 13 Então, um dos seus servos respondeu e disse: Tomem-se, pois, cinco dos cavalos do resto que ficou aqui dentro, pois toda a multidão dos israelitas que ficaram aqui de resto terá a mesma sorte da multidão dos israelitas que já pereceram; enviemo-los e vejamos. 14 Tomaram, pois, dois cavalos de carro; e o rei os enviou após o exército dos siros, dizendo: Ide e vede. 15 E foram após eles até ao Jordão, e eis que todo o caminho estava cheio de vestes e de aviamentos, que os siros, apressando-se, lançaram fora; e voltaram os mensageiros e o anunciaram ao rei.
16 Então, saiu o povo e saqueou o arraial dos siros; e havia uma medida de farinha por um siclo, e duas medidas de cevada, por um siclo, conforme a palavra do Senhor. 17 E pusera o rei à porta o capitão em cuja mão se encostava; e o povo o atropelou na porta, e ele morreu, como falara o homem de Deus, o que falou quando o rei descera a ele. 18 Porque assim sucedeu como o homem de Deus falara ao rei, dizendo: Amanhã, quase a este tempo, haverá duas medidas de cevada por um siclo, e uma medida de farinha, por um siclo, à porta de Samaria. 19 E aquele capitão respondera ao homem de Deus e disse: Eis que, ainda que o Senhor fizesse janelas no céu, poder-se-ia isso fazer conforme essa palavra? E o homem de Deus dissera: Eis que o verás com os teus olhos, porém daí não comerás. 20 E assim lhe sucedeu, porque o povo o atropelou à porta, e ele morreu.
2 Kings 7
New Living Translation
7 Elisha replied, “Listen to this message from the Lord! This is what the Lord says: By this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, six quarts of choice flour will cost only one piece of silver,[a] and twelve quarts of barley grain will cost only one piece of silver.[b]”
2 The officer assisting the king said to the man of God, “That couldn’t happen even if the Lord opened the windows of heaven!”
But Elisha replied, “You will see it happen with your own eyes, but you won’t be able to eat any of it!”
Outcasts Visit the Enemy Camp
3 Now there were four men with leprosy[c] sitting at the entrance of the city gates. “Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other. 4 “We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.”
5 So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there! 6 For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses and the sounds of a great army approaching. “The king of Israel has hired the Hittites and Egyptians[d] to attack us!” they cried to one another. 7 So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives.
8 When the men with leprosy arrived at the edge of the camp, they went into one tent after another, eating and drinking wine; and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and hid it. 9 Finally, they said to each other, “This is not right. This is a day of good news, and we aren’t sharing it with anyone! If we wait until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us. Come on, let’s go back and tell the people at the palace.”
10 So they went back to the city and told the gatekeepers what had happened. “We went out to the Aramean camp,” they said, “and no one was there! The horses and donkeys were tethered and the tents were all in order, but there wasn’t a single person around!” 11 Then the gatekeepers shouted the news to the people in the palace.
Israel Plunders the Camp
12 The king got out of bed in the middle of the night and told his officers, “I know what has happened. The Arameans know we are starving, so they have left their camp and have hidden in the fields. They are expecting us to leave the city, and then they will take us alive and capture the city.”
13 One of his officers replied, “We had better send out scouts to check into this. Let them take five of the remaining horses. If something happens to them, it will be no worse than if they stay here and die with the rest of us.”
14 So two chariots with horses were prepared, and the king sent scouts to see what had happened to the Aramean army. 15 They went all the way to the Jordan River, following a trail of clothing and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their mad rush to escape. The scouts returned and told the king about it. 16 Then the people of Samaria rushed out and plundered the Aramean camp. So it was true that six quarts of choice flour were sold that day for one piece of silver, and twelve quarts of barley grain were sold for one piece of silver, just as the Lord had promised. 17 The king appointed his officer to control the traffic at the gate, but he was knocked down and trampled to death as the people rushed out.
So everything happened exactly as the man of God had predicted when the king came to his house. 18 The man of God had said to the king, “By this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, six quarts of choice flour will cost one piece of silver, and twelve quarts of barley grain will cost one piece of silver.”
19 The king’s officer had replied, “That couldn’t happen even if the Lord opened the windows of heaven!” And the man of God had said, “You will see it happen with your own eyes, but you won’t be able to eat any of it!” 20 And so it was, for the people trampled him to death at the gate!
Footnotes
- 7:1a Hebrew 1 seah [7.3 liters] of choice flour will cost 1 shekel [0.4 ounces or 11 grams]; also in 7:16, 18.
- 7:1b Hebrew 2 seahs [14.6 liters] of barley grain will cost 1 shekel [0.4 ounces or 11 grams]; also in 7:16, 18.
- 7:3 Or with a contagious skin disease. The Hebrew word used here and throughout this passage can describe various skin diseases.
- 7:6 Possibly and the people of Muzur, a district near Cilicia.
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