2 Raja-raja 6

2 Raja-raja 6

2 Kings 6

Kapak timbul mengapung 6:1 Pada suatu hari berkatalah rombongan nabi kepada Elisa: "Cobalah lihat, tempat tinggal kami di dekatmu ini adalah terlalu sesak bagi kami. 6:2 Baiklah kami pergi ke sungai Yordan dan masing-masing mengambil satu balok dari sana, supaya kami membuat tempat tinggal untuk kami." Jawab Elisa: "Pergilah!" 6:3 Lalu berkatalah seorang: "Silakan, ikutlah dengan hamba-hambamu ini." Jawabnya: "Baik aku akan ikut." 6:4 Maka ikutlah ia dengan mereka. Setelah mereka sampai di sungai Yordan, merekapun menebang pohon-pohon. 6:5 Dan terjadilah, ketika seorang sedang menumbangkan sebatang pohon, jatuhlah mata kapaknya ke dalam air. Lalu berteriak-teriaklah ia: "Wahai tuanku! Itu barang pinjaman!" 6:6 Tetapi berkatalah abdi Allah: "Ke mana jatuhnya?" Lalu orang itu menunjukkan tempat itu kepadanya. Kemudian Elisa memotong sepotong kayu, lalu dilemparkannya ke sana, maka timbullah mata kapak itu dibuatnya. 6:7 Lalu katanya: "Ambillah." Orang itu mengulurkan tangannya dan mengambilnya. Tindakan Elisa dalam peperangan melawan Aram 6:8 Raja negeri Aram sedang berperang melawan Israel. Ia berunding dengan pegawai-pegawainya, lalu katanya: "Ke tempat ini dan itu haruslah kamu turun menghadang." 6:9 Tetapi abdi Allah menyuruh orang kepada raja Israel mengatakan: "Awas, jangan lewat dari tempat itu, sebab orang Aram sudah turun menghadang ke sana." 6:10 Sebab itu raja Israel menyuruh orang-orang ke tempat yang disebutkan abdi Allah kepadanya. Demikianlah Elisa memperingatkan kepadanya, supaya berawas-awas di sana, bukan sekali dua kali saja. 6:11 Lalu mengamuklah hati raja Aram tentang hal itu, maka dipanggilnyalah pegawai-pegawainya, katanya kepada mereka: "Tidakkah dapat kamu memberitahukan kepadaku siapa dari kita memihak kepada raja Israel?" 6:12 Tetapi berkatalah salah seorang pegawainya: "Tidak tuanku raja, melainkan Elisa, nabi yang di Israel, dialah yang memberitahukan kepada raja Israel tentang perkataan yang diucapkan oleh tuanku di kamar tidurmu." 6:13 Berkatalah raja: "Pergilah melihat, di mana dia, supaya aku menyuruh orang menangkap dia." Lalu diberitahukanlah kepadanya: "Dia ada di Dotan." 6:14 Maka dikirimnyalah ke sana kuda serta kereta dan tentara yang besar. Sampailah mereka pada waktu malam, lalu mengepung kota itu. 6:15 Ketika pelayan abdi Allah bangun pagi-pagi dan pergi ke luar, maka tampaklah suatu tentara dengan kuda dan kereta ada di sekeliling kota itu. Lalu berkatalah bujangnya itu kepadanya: "Celaka tuanku! Apakah yang akan kita perbuat?" 6:16 Jawabnya: "Jangan takut, sebab lebih banyak yang menyertai kita dari pada yang menyertai mereka." 6:17 Lalu berdoalah Elisa: "Ya TUHAN: Bukalah kiranya matanya, supaya ia melihat." Maka TUHAN membuka mata bujang itu, sehingga ia melihat. Tampaklah gunung itu penuh dengan kuda dan kereta berapi sekeliling Elisa. 6:18 Ketika orang-orang Aram itu turun mendatangi dia, berdoalah Elisa kepada TUHAN: "Butakanlah kiranya mata orang-orang ini." Maka dibutakan-Nyalah mata mereka, sesuai dengan doa Elisa. 6:19 Kemudian berkatalah Elisa kepada mereka: "Bukan ini jalannya dan bukan ini kotanya. Ikutlah aku, maka aku akan mengantarkan kamu kepada orang yang kamu cari." Lalu diantarkannya mereka ke Samaria. 6:20 Segera sesudah mereka sampai ke Samaria berkatalah Elisa: "Ya TUHAN, bukalah mata orang-orang ini, supaya mereka melihat." Lalu TUHAN membuka mata mereka, sehingga mereka melihat, dan heran, mereka ada di tengah-tengah Samaria. 6:21 Lalu bertanyalah raja Israel kepada Elisa, tatkala melihat mereka: "Kubunuhkah mereka, bapak?" 6:22 Tetapi jawabnya: "Jangan! Biasakah kaubunuh yang kautawan dengan pedangmu dan dengan panahmu? Tetapi hidangkanlah makanan dan minuman di depan mereka, supaya mereka makan dan minum, lalu pulang kepada tuan mereka." 6:23 Disediakannyalah bagi mereka jamuan yang besar, maka makan dan minumlah mereka. Sesudah itu dibiarkannyalah mereka pulang kepada tuan mereka. Sejak itu tidak ada lagi gerombolan-gerombolan Aram memasuki negeri Israel. Tindakan Elisa pada waktu Samaria dikepung 6:24 Sesudah itu Benhadad, raja Aram, menghimpunkan seluruh tentaranya, lalu maju mengepung Samaria. 6:25 Maka terjadilah kelaparan hebat di Samaria selama mereka mengepungnya, sehingga sebuah kepala keledai berharga delapan puluh syikal perak dan seperempat kab tahi merpati berharga lima syikal perak. 6:26 Suatu kali ketika raja Israel berjalan di atas tembok, datanglah seorang perempuan mengadukan halnya kepada raja, sambil berseru: "Tolonglah, ya tuanku raja!" 6:27 Jawabnya: "Jika TUHAN tidak menolong engkau, dengan apakah aku dapat menolong engkau? Dengan hasil pengirikankah atau hasil pemerasan anggur?" 6:28 Kemudian bertanyalah raja kepadanya: "Ada apa?" Jawab perempuan itu: "Perempuan ini berkata kepadaku: Berilah anakmu laki-laki, supaya kita makan dia pada hari ini, dan besok akan kita makan anakku laki-laki. 6:29 Jadi kami memasak anakku dan memakan dia. Tetapi ketika aku berkata kepadanya pada hari berikutnya: Berilah anakmu, supaya kita makan dia, maka perempuan ini menyembunyikan anaknya." 6:30 Tatkala raja mendengar perkataan perempuan itu, dikoyakkannyalah pakaiannya; dan sedang ia berjalan di atas tembok, kelihatanlah kepada orang banyak, bahwa ia memakai kain kabung pada kulit tubuhnya. 6:31 Lalu berkatalah raja: "Beginilah kiranya Allah menghukum aku, bahkan lebih dari pada itu, jika masih tinggal kepala Elisa bin Safat di atas tubuhnya pada hari ini." 6:32 Adapun Elisa, duduk-duduk di rumahnya, dan para tua-tua duduk bersama-sama dia. Raja menyuruh seorang berjalan mendahuluinya, tetapi sebelum suruhan itu sampai kepada Elisa, Elisa sudah berkata kepada para tua-tua itu: "Tahukah kamu, bahwa si pembunuh itu menyuruh orang untuk memenggal kepalaku? Awas-awaslah, apabila suruhan itu datang, segeralah tutup pintu dan tahanlah dia supaya orang itu jangan masuk. Bukankah sudah kedengaran bunyi langkah tuannya di belakangnya?" 6:33 Selagi ia berbicara dengan mereka, datanglah raja mendapatkan dia. Berkatalah raja kepadanya: "Sesungguhnya, malapetaka ini adalah dari pada TUHAN. Mengapakah aku berharap kepada TUHAN lagi?"

6:1 And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See now, the place where we dwell with you is too small for us.
6:2 "Please, let us go to the Jordan, and let every man take a beam from there, and let us make there a place where we may dwell." So he answered, "Go."
6:3 Then one said, "Please consent to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."
6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
6:5 But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron [ax head] fell into the water; and he cried out and said, "Alas, master! For it was borrowed."
6:6 So the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" And he showed him the place. So he cut off a stick, and threw [it] in there; and he made the iron float.
6:7 Therefore he said, "Pick [it] up for yourself." So he reached out his hand and took it.
6:8 Now the king of Syria was making war against Israel; and he consulted with his servants, saying, "My camp [will be] in such and such a place."
6:9 And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are coming down there."
6:10 Then the king of Israel sent [someone] to the place of which the man of God had told him. Thus he warned him, and he was watchful there, not just once or twice.
6:11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was greatly troubled by this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you not show me which of us [is] for the king of Israel?"
6:12 And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who [is] in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom."
6:13 So he said, "Go and see where he [is], that I may send and get him." And it was told him, saying, "Surely [he is] in Dothan."
6:14 Therefore he sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city.
6:15 And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"
6:16 So he answered, "Do not fear, for those who [are] with us [are] more than those who [are] with them."
6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, "LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see." Then the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
6:18 So when [the Syrians] came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, "Strike this people, I pray, with blindness." And He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
6:19 Now Elisha said to them, "This [is] not the way, nor [is] this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." But he led them to Samaria.
6:20 So it was, when they had come to 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 there [they were], inside Samaria!
6:21 Now when the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, "My father, shall I kill [them]? Shall I kill [them]?"
6:22 But he answered, "You shall not kill [them]. Would you kill those whom you have taken captive with your sword and your bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master."
6:23 Then he prepared a great feast for them; and after they ate and drank, he sent them away and they went to their master. So the bands of Syrian [raiders] came no more into the land of Israel.
6:24 And it happened after this that BenHadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey's head was [sold] for eighty [shekels] of silver, and onefourth of a kab of dove droppings for five [shekels] of silver.
6:26 Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
6:27 And he said, "If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?"
6:28 Then the king said to her, "What is troubling you?" And she answered, "This woman said to me, `Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
6:29 "So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, `Give your son, that we may eat him';but she has hidden her son."
6:30 Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes; and as he passed by on the wall, the people looked, and there underneath [he had] sackcloth on his body.
6:31 Then he said, "God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today."
6:32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And [the king] sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door. [Is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
6:33 And while he was still talking with them, there was the messenger, coming down to him; and then [the king] said, "Surely this calamity [is] from the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"

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