1 Elisha replied, "Hear the word of the LORD. This is what the LORD says: About this time tomorrow, a seah "of the finest flour will sell for a shekel "and two seahs "of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria."2 The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, "Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?" "You will see it with your own eyes," answered Elisha, "but you will not eat any of it!"3 Now there were four men with leprosy "at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, "Why stay here until we die?4 If we say, 'We'll go into the city' —the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let's go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die."5 At dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Arameans. When they reached the edge of the camp, no one was there,6 for the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, "Look, the king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to attack us!"7 So they got up and fled in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.8 The men who had leprosy reached the edge of the camp, entered one of the tents and ate and drank. Then they took silver, gold and clothes, and went off and hid them. They returned and entered another tent and took some things from it and hid them also.9 Then they said to each other, "What we're doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let's go at once and report this to the royal palace."10 So they went and called out to the city gatekeepers and told them, "We went into the Aramean camp and no one was there —not a sound of anyone —only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents left just as they were."11 The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported within the palace.12 The king got up in the night and said to his officers, "I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide in the countryside, thinking, 'They will surely come out, and then we will take them alive and get into the city.'"13 One of his officers answered, "Have some men take five of the horses that are left in the city. Their plight will be like that of all the Israelites left here —yes, they will only be like all these Israelites who are doomed. So let us send them to find out what happened."14 So they selected two chariots with their horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army. He commanded the drivers, "Go and find out what has happened."15 They followed them as far as the Jordan, and they found the whole road strewn with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown away in their headlong flight. So the messengers returned and reported to the king.16 Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. So a seah of the finest flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, as the LORD had said.17 Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house.18 It happened as the man of God had said to the king: "About this time tomorrow, a seah of the finest flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria."19 The officer had said to the man of God, "Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?" The man of God had replied, "You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!"20 And that is exactly what happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

1 وقال اليشع اسمعوا كلام الرب هكذا قال الرب في مثل هذا الوقت غدا تكون كيلة الدقيق بشاقل وكيلتا الشعير بشاقل في باب السامرة.2 وان جنديا للملك كان يستند على يده اجاب رجل الله وقال هوذا الرب يصنع كوى في السماء. هل يكون هذا الامر. فقال انك ترى بعينيك ولكن لا تاكل منه3 وكان اربعة رجال برص عند مدخل الباب فقال احدهم لصاحبه لماذا نحن جالسون هنا حتى نموت.4 اذا قلنا ندخل المدينة فالجوع في المدينة فنموت فيها. واذا جلسنا هنا نموت. فالآن هلم نسقط الى محلّة الاراميين فان استحيونا حيينا وان قتلونا متنا.5 فقاموا في العشاء ليذهبوا الى محلّة الاراميين فجاءوا الى آخر محلة الاراميين فلم يكن هناك احد.6 فان الرب اسمع جيش الاراميين صوت مركبات وصوت خيل صوت جيش عظيم فقالوا الواحد لاخيه هوذا ملك اسرائيل قد استأجر ضدنا ملوك الحثيين وملوك المصريين ليأتوا علينا.7 فقاموا وهربوا في العشاء وتركوا خيامهم وخيلهم وحميرهم والمحلّة كما هي وهربوا لاجل نجاة انفسهم.8 وجاء هؤلاء البرص الى آخر المحلّة ودخلوا خيمة واحدة فاكلوا وشربوا وحملوا منها فضة وذهبا وثيابا ومضوا وطمروها ثم رجعوا ودخلوا خيمة اخرى وحملوا منها ومضوا وطمروا.9 ثم قال بعضهم لبعض لسنا عاملين حسنا. هذا اليوم هو يوم بشارة ونحن ساكتون. فان انتظرنا الى ضوء الصباح يصادفنا شر. فهلم الآن ندخل ونخبر بيت الملك10 فجاءوا ودعوا بواب المدينة واخبروه قائلين. اننا دخلنا محلّة الاراميين فلم يكن هناك احد ولا صوت انسان ولكن خيل مربوطة وحمير مربوطة وخيام كما هي.11 فدعا البوابين فاخبروا بيت الملك داخلا12 فقام الملك ليلا وقال لعبيده لاخبرنّكم ما فعل لنا الاراميون. علموا اننا جياع فخرجوا من المحلّة ليختبئوا في حقل قائلين اذا خرجوا من المدينة قبضنا عليهم احياء ودخلنا المدينة.13 فاجاب واحد من عبيده وقال فليأخذوا خمسة من الخيل الباقية التي بقيت فيها. هي نظير كل جمهور اسرائيل الذين بقوا بها او هي نظير كل جمهور اسرائيل الذين فنوا. فنرسل ونرى.14 فأخذوا مركبتي خيل وارسل الملك وراء جيش الاراميين قائلا اذهبوا وانظروا.15 فانطلقوا وراءهم الى الاردن واذا كل الطريق ملآن ثيابا وآنية قد طرحها الاراميون من عجلتهم. فرجع الرسل واخبروا الملك.16 فخرج الشعب ونهبوا محلّة الاراميين. فكانت كيلة الدقيق بشاقل وكيلتا الشعير بشاقل حسب كلام الرب17 واقام الملك على الباب الجندي الذي كان يستند على يده فداسه الشعب في الباب فمات كما قال رجل الله الذي تكلم عند نزول الملك اليه.18 فانه لما تكلم رجل الله الى الملك قائلا كيلتا شعير بشاقل وكيلة دقيق بشاقل تكون في مثل هذا الوقت غدا في باب السامرة19 واجاب الجندي رجل الله وقال هوذا الرب يصنع كوى في السماء هل يكون مثل هذا الأمر قال انك ترى بعينيك ولكنك لا تأكل منه.20 فكان له كذلك. داسه الشعب في الباب فمات