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II Các Vua 6
Vietnamese Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
II Các Vua 6
Vietnamese Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
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6 Các nhà tiên tri nói với Ê-li-sê, “Nơi chúng ta họp với ông ở đây quá chật hẹp. 2 Chúng ta hãy đi đến sông Giô-đanh. Ở đó mỗi người sẽ đốn một khúc gỗ rồi cất nhà ở.”
Ê-li-sê nói, “Đi đi.”
3 Một người trong họ bảo, “Xin ông hãy đi với chúng tôi.”
Ê-li-sê đáp, “Ta sẽ đi,”
4 rồi ông đi với họ. Khi đến sông Giô-đanh thì họ bắt đầu đốn cây. 5 Có một người đang chặt cây thì lưỡi rìu sút ra văng xuống nước. Anh kêu lên, “Chủ ơi! Lưỡi rìu đó tôi mượn của người ta!”
6 Ê-li-sê hỏi, “Nó rớt chỗ nào?”
Người ấy chỉ cho ông chỗ nó rơi. Ê-li-sê liền chặt một que gỗ ném xuống nước thì lưỡi rìu sắt nổi lên. 7 Ê-li-sê bảo, “Hãy lượm lưỡi rìu lên đi.” Ngươi ấy giơ tay ra lượm nó.
A-ram tìm cách phục kích quân Ít-ra-en
8 Vua A-ram đánh nhau với Ít-ra-en. Ông họp các sĩ quan lại bảo rằng, “Ta sẽ đóng quân chỗ nầy.”
9 Ê-li-sê người của Thượng Đế cho người nhắn với vua Ít-ra-en rằng, “Hãy cẩn thận, đừng đi qua chỗ ấy vì quân A-ram sẽ kéo đến đó!”
10 Vua Ít-ra-en soát lại nơi Ê-li-sê đã báo. Ông báo trước cho vua nhiều lần nên vua tránh được những nơi đó, và cứu được nhiều sinh mạng [a].
11 Vua A-ram rất tức tối về chuyện ấy. Ông triệu tập các sĩ quan lại và hạch hỏi, “Hãy nói cho ta biết ai trong chúng ta làm nội tuyến cho vua Ít-ra-en.”
12 Một trong các sĩ quan thưa, “Tâu vua, không có ai trong chúng tôi làm nội tuyến đâu. Người đó là Ê-li-sê, nhà tiên tri của Ít-ra-en. Ông ta có thể nói cho vua Ít-ra-en biết những điều bí mật kể cả những gì bệ hạ nói trong phòng ngủ mình.”
13 Vua liền bảo, “Hãy đi truy lùng để ta sai người bắt hắn.”
Các đầy tớ đi và trở về báo cáo, “Ông ta đang ở Đô-than.”
14 Vua liền cho ngựa, quân xa và vô số quân lính đến Đô-than. Chúng kéo đến lúc ban đêm và bao vây thành. 15 Đứa đầy tớ của Ê-li-sê dậy sớm đi ra thì thấy một đạo quân cùng ngựa và quân xa vây quanh thành.
Nó hốt hoảng kêu lên, “Chủ ơi, chúng ta sẽ làm sao đây?”
16 Ê-li-sê đáp, “Đừng sợ. Phe chúng ta đông hơn phe của họ.”
17 Rồi Ê-li-sê cầu nguyện, “CHÚA ơi, xin mở mắt cho kẻ tôi tớ con để nó thấy.”
CHÚA liền mở mắt cho chàng thanh niên thì nó thấy núi đầy ngựa và quân xa bằng lửa xung quanh Ê-li-sê.
18 Khi quân thù tiến về phía Ê-li-sê thì ông cầu nguyện cùng CHÚA, “Xin Ngài khiến chúng bị đui mù.”
CHÚA liền khiến đạo quân A-ram bị mù theo như lời Ê-li-sê xin.
19 Ê-li-sê bảo chúng, “Đây không phải đường hay thành. Hãy theo ta, ta sẽ đưa các anh đến người mà các anh đang tìm.” Ê-li-sê-liền dẫn chúng đến Xa-ma-ri [b].
20 Sau khi chúng đã vào thành Xa-ma-ri, Ê-li-sê-liền cầu nguyện, “Lạy CHÚA, xin mở mắt chúng để chúng thấy được.”
CHÚA liền mở mắt chúng. Đạo quân A-ram vô cùng sửng sốt khi thấy mình đang ở giữa thành Xa-ma-ri! 21 Khi vua Ít-ra-en thấy đạo quân A-ram, ông hỏi Ê-li-sê, “Cha ơi, tôi có nên giết chúng không? Có giết không?”
22 Ê-li-sê đáp, “Đừng giết họ. Vua không giết kẻ nào bị vua bắt được bằng gươm hay cung tên. Hãy đãi họ ăn uống rồi trả họ về cho chủ họ.”
23 Vậy vua làm một tiệc lớn đãi đạo quân A-ram. Sau khi chúng ăn uống xong thì vua cho chúng ra về cùng chủ mình. Từ đó quân lính A-ram không còn dám xâm phạm xứ Ít-ra-en nữa.
Nạn đói kém khủng khiếp ở Xa-ma-ri
24 Về sau, Bên-ha-đát, vua A-ram kéo toàn quân đến vây thành Xa-ma-ri. 25 Xa-ma-ri lâm nạn đói trầm trọng. Nạn đói tệ hại đến nỗi một đầu lừa bán khoảng hai cân bạc, và một phần tư lít phân bồ câu bán khoảng hai lượng bạc.
26 Khi vua Ít-ra-en đi ngang qua trên vách thành thì một người đàn bà réo gọi vua, “Thưa vua chúa tôi, xin giúp tôi!”
27 Vua đáp, “Nếu CHÚA không giúp chị thì làm sao tôi giúp chị được? Bộ tôi có thể giúp chị được nhờ sân đập lúa hay máy ép rượu sao?” 28 Vua hỏi, “Chuyện gì vậy?”
Chị thưa, “Bà nầy nói với tôi, ‘Hãy trao con chị để chúng ta ăn thịt nó bữa nay rồi ngày mai chúng ta sẽ ăn thịt con tôi.’ 29 Vậy chúng tôi nấu con tôi và ăn thịt nó. Hôm sau tôi hỏi chị, ‘Đưa con chị đây để chúng ta ăn thịt nó.’ Nhưng chị đem giấu nó.”
30 Vua vừa nghe lời người đàn bà thuật liền xé quần áo mình trong đau khổ. Khi vua đang đi dọc theo vách thành thì người ta nhìn thì thấy vua mặc quần áo vải sô bên dưới lớp quần áo thường để bày tỏ sự đau buồn.
31 Vua nói, “Nếu hôm nay đầu của Ê-li-sê, con trai Sa-phát chưa bị chém thì nguyện Thượng Đế phạt ta thật nặng!”
32 Vua sai sứ đến Ê-li-sê. Ông đang ngồi trong nhà với các bô lão. Trước khi sứ giả đến, Ê-li-sê bảo họ, “Xem kìa, tên sát nhân đang sai người đến chém đầu tôi. Khi sứ giả đến hãy đóng ập cửa lại đừng cho nó vào. Tiếng của chủ nó ngay sau lưng nó.”
33 Ê-li-sê đang nói với các lãnh tụ thì sứ giả [c] đến. Vua hỏi, “Sự khốn khổ nầy do CHÚA mà đến. Vậy trông đợi Ngài mà làm gì nữa?”
Footnotes
- II Các Vua 6:10 nhiều sinh mạng Nguyên văn, “không phải một hai sinh mạng.”
- II Các Vua 6:19 Xa-ma-ri Đây là thủ đô của Ít-ra-en—kẻ thù của vua A-ram.
- II Các Vua 6:33 sứ giả Có thể là “nhà vua.”
2 Kings 6
New International Version
2 Kings 6
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An Axhead Floats
6 The company(A) of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. 2 Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.”
And he said, “Go.”
3 Then one of them said, “Won’t you please come with your servants?”
“I will,” Elisha replied. 4 And he went with them.
They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees. 5 As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. “Oh no, my lord!” he cried out. “It was borrowed!”
6 The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw(B) it there, and made the iron float. 7 “Lift it out,” he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it.
Elisha Traps Blinded Arameans
8 Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel. After conferring with his officers, he said, “I will set up my camp in such and such a place.”
9 The man of God sent word to the king(C) of Israel: “Beware of passing that place, because the Arameans are going down there.” 10 So the king of Israel checked on the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again Elisha warned(D) the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.
11 This enraged the king of Aram. He summoned his officers and demanded of them, “Tell me! Which of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”
12 “None of us, my lord the king(E),” said one of his officers, “but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”
13 “Go, find out where he is,” the king ordered, “so I can send men and capture him.” The report came back: “He is in Dothan.”(F) 14 Then he sent(G) horses and chariots and a strong force there. They went by night and surrounded the city.
15 When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. “Oh no, my lord! What shall we do?” the servant asked.
16 “Don’t be afraid,”(H) the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more(I) than those who are with them.”
17 And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots(J) of fire all around Elisha.
18 As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Strike this army with blindness.”(K) So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked.
19 Elisha told them, “This is not the road and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to Samaria.
20 After they entered the city, Elisha said, “Lord, open the eyes of these men so they can see.” Then the Lord opened their eyes and they looked, and there they were, inside Samaria.
21 When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “Shall I kill them, my father?(L) Shall I kill them?”
22 “Do not kill them,” he answered. “Would you kill those you have captured(M) with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink and then go back to their master.” 23 So he prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. So the bands(N) from Aram stopped raiding Israel’s territory.
Famine in Besieged Samaria
24 Some time later, Ben-Hadad(O) king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege(P) to Samaria. 25 There was a great famine(Q) in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels[a] of silver, and a quarter of a cab[b] of seed pods[c](R) for five shekels.[d]
26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
27 The king replied, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?” 28 Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?”
She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’ 29 So we cooked my son and ate(S) him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”
30 When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore(T) his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth(U) on his body. 31 He said, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!”
32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders(V) were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Don’t you see how this murderer(W) is sending someone to cut off my head?(X) Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?” 33 While he was still talking to them, the messenger came down to him.
The king said, “This disaster is from the Lord. Why should I wait(Y) for the Lord any longer?”
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 6:25 That is, about 2 pounds or about 920 grams
- 2 Kings 6:25 That is, probably about 1/4 pound or about 100 grams
- 2 Kings 6:25 Or of doves’ dung
- 2 Kings 6:25 That is, about 2 ounces or about 58 grams
2 Kings 6
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2 Kings 6
King James Version
6 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
7 Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.
8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?
12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
13 And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.
20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
27 And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the Lord; what should I wait for the Lord any longer?
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