2 Reis 8

1 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years."

2 The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years. 3 At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land. 4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done." 5 As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life begged the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life."

6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now."

7 Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. He was told, "The man of God has come here."

8 The king said to Hazael, "Take a present in your hand, and go meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’"

9 So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him and said, "Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’"

10 Elisha said to him, "Go, tell him, ‘You will surely recover;’ however Yahweh has shown me that he will surely die." 11 He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.

12 Hazael said, "Why do you weep, my lord?"

He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their little ones in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women."

13 Hazael said, "But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?"

Elisha answered, "Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria."

14 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?"

He answered, "He told me that you would surely recover."

15 On the next day, he took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it on the king’s face, so that he died. Then Hazael reigned in his place.

16 In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah then, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign. 17 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign. He reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 18 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house, for he married Ahab’s daughter. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. 19 However, Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.

20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. 21 Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him; and he rose up by night and struck the Edomites who surrounded him with the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents. 22 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time. 23 The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 24 Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign. 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel. 27 He walked in the way of Ahab’s house and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for he was the son-in-law of Ahab’s house.

28 He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram. 29 King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

Ka Hoki te Wahine Huneme

1 Nā, kua kōrero a Eriha ki te wahine nāna nei te tamaiti i whakaorangia e ia, kua mea, "Whakatika, haere koutou ko tōu whare, ā, e noho ki tāu wāhi e noho ai koe; kua karangatia hoki e Ihowā he matekai; ā, ka pā hoki ki te whenua, e whitu tau." 2 Nā, ka whakatika taua wahine, ka mea i tā te tangata a te Atua i kī ai; ā, haere ana rātou ko tōna whare, noho ana ki te whenua o ngā Pirihitini, e whitu ngā tau.

3 Nā, i te takanga o ngā tau e whitu, ka hoki atu taua wahine i te whenua o ngā Pirihitini; ā, haere ana ia ki te karanga ki te kīngi mō tōna whare, mō tāna māra.

4 Nā, ko te kīngi i te kōrero ki a Kehati, tangata a te tangata a te Atua; i mea hoki ia, "Tēnā, kōrerotia mai ki ahau ngā mahi nunui katoa i mea ai a Eriha." 5 Ā, i a ia e kōrero ana ki te kīngi i tāna whakaoranga i te tūpāpaku, nā, ko te wahine nāna nei te tamaiti i whakaorangia e ia i te mate, e karanga ana ki te kīngi mō tōna whare, mō tāna māra.

Nā, ka mea a Kehati, "E tōku ariki, e te kīngi, koia tēnei te wahine, ā, ko tāna tama tēnei i whakaorangia rā e Eriha."

6 Ā, i te uinga a te kīngi ki te wahine rā, ka kōrerotia e ia ki a ia.

Heoi, ka tukua e te kīngi ki a ia tētahi o ngā rangatira, ka mea, "Whakahokia āna mea katoa, me ngā hua katoa o te māra mai o te rā i mahue ai i a ia te whenua ā mohoa noa nei."

Ko Eriha me Kīngi Pēneharara o Hīria

7 Ā, i haere a Eriha ki Ramahiku; ā, e mate ana a Pēneharara kīngi o Hīria; nā, ka whakaaturia ki a ia, ka kōrerotia, "Kua tae mai te tangata a te Atua ki konei." 8 Nā, ka mea atu te kīngi ki a Hataere, "Maua atu tētahi hākari i tōu ringa, ka haere ki te whakatau i te tangata a te Atua, ka ui ki tā Ihowā ki a ia, ka mea, ‘E ora rānei ahau i tēnei mate?’ "

9 Nā, haere ana a Hataere ki te whakatau i a ia, me te mau anō he hākari i tōna ringa, i ētahi o ngā mea papai katoa o Ramahiku, he kawenga nā ngā kāmera e whā tekau, ā, ka tae. Ka tū i tōna aroaro, ka mea, "Nā tāu tama, nā Pēneharara kīngi o Hīria ahau i unga mai ki a koe, hei mea, ‘E ora rānei ahau i tēnei mate?’ "

10 Anō rā ko Eriha ki a ia, "Haere, mea atu ki a ia, ‘E ora anō koe’; otiia kua oti i a Ihowā te whakakite mai ki ahau, tērā ia e mate." 11 Nā, ka whakatau ia i tōna mata ki runga ki a ia, ū tonu, ā, whakamā noa ia; ko te tino tangihanga o te tangata a te Atua.

12 Nā, ka mea a Hataere, "Nā te aha tōku ariki i tangi ai?"

Anō rā ko ia, "Nō te mea e mōhio ana ahau ki te kino e meatia e koe ki ngā tama a Īharaira; ko ō rātou pā e tahuna e koe ki te ahi, ko ā rātou taitamariki e patua e koe ki te hoari, ko ā rātou kōhungahunga e tāia iho e koe, ā, ko ā rātou wāhine hapū ka ripiripia e koe."

13 Anō rā ko Hataere, "Ha! He aha tāu pononga, he kurī noa nei, kia meatia e ia tēnei mea nui?"

Anō rā ko Eriha, "Kua whakakitea mai e Ihowā ki ahau, ko koe hei kīngi mō Hīria."

14 Heoi, mawehe atu ana ia i a Eriha, ā, ka tae ki tōna ariki; ā, ka mea tērā ki a ia, "I pēhea mai te kupu a Eriha ki a koe?" Anō rā ko ia, "E kī ana ia, tērā koe e ora." 15 Nā, i te aonga ake, ka mau ia ki te kākahu mātotoru, ā, tukua ana ki te wai, ā, uhia ana ki tōna mata, nā, kua mate. Ā, ko Hataere te kīngi i muri i a ia.

Ko Kīngi Iehorama o Hūrā

16 I te rima o ngā tau o Iorama tama a Āhapa kīngi o Īharaira, i a Iehohāpata e kīngi ana ki a Hūrā, ka kīngi a Iehorama tama a Iehohāpata kīngi o Hūrā. 17 E toru tekau mā rua ōna tau i a ia ka kīngi nei, ā, e waru ngā tau i kīngi ai ia i Hiruhārama. 18 Nā, haere ana ia i te ara o ngā kīngi o Īharaira, pērā tonu me ngā mahi a te whare o Āhapa; i a ia hoki te tamāhine a Āhapa hei wahine; ā, i mahia e ia te mea kino ki tā Ihowā titiro. 19 Otiia kīhai a Ihowā i pai ki te whakangaro i a Hūrā, i whakaaro hoki ki tāna pononga, ki a Rāwiri, i kōrero hoki ia ki a ia, ka hoatu e ia ki a ia he rama mā āna tamariki mō ngā rā katoa.

20 I ōna rā ka maunu a Ēroma i raro i te ringa o Hūrā, ā, whakakīngitia ana he kīngi mō rātou. 21 Kātahi ka haere a Iorama ki Tairi, me ana hāriata katoa i a ia; ā, whakatika ana ia i te pō, ā, patua iho e ia ngā Ēromi i karapotia ai ia, rātou ko ngā rangatira o ngā hāriata; ā, rere ana te iwi ki ō rātou tēneti. 22 Heoi, i maunu a Ēroma i raro i te ringa o Hūrā ā tae noa ki tēnei rā. Kātahi ka maunu anō hoki a Rīpina i taua wā.

23 Nā, ko ērā atu meatanga a Iorama, me āna mahi katoa, kāhore ianei i tuhituhia ki te Pukapuka o ngā meatanga o Ngā Rā o Ngā Kīngi o Hūrā? 24 Nā, kua moe a Iorama ki ōna mātua, ā, tanumia iho ki ōna mātua ki te pā o Rāwiri; ā, ko Ahatia, ko tāna tama te kīngi i muri i a ia.

Ko Kīngi Ahatia o Hūrā

25 Nā, i te tekau mā rua o ngā tau o Iorama tama a Āhapa kīngi o Īharaira, ka kīngi a Ahatia tama a Iehorama kīngi o Hūrā. 26 E rua tekau mā rua ngā tau o Ahatia i a ia ka kīngi nei; ā, kotahi ōna tau i kīngi ai i Hiruhārama. Ā, ko te ingoa o tōna whaea ko Atāria tamāhine a Omori kīngi o Īharaira. 27 Nā, haere ana ia i te ara o te whare o Āhapa, ā, mahia ana e ia te kino ki te titiro a Ihowā, pērā tonu me tā te whare o Āhapa; ko ia hoki te hunaonga o te whare o Āhapa.

28 Nā, haere ana ia me Iorama tama a Āhapa ki te whawhai ki a Hataere kīngi o Hīria ki Rāmoto Kireara; nā, tū ana a Iorama i ngā Hīriani. 29 Nā, hoki ana a Kīngi Iorama ki Ietereere kia rongoātia ngā tūnga i tū ai ia i ngā Hīriani ki Rama, i tāna whawhai ki a Hataere kīngi o Hīria.

Ā, haere ana a Ahatia tama a Iehorama kīngi o Hūrā ki raro kia kite i a Iorama tama a Āhapa ki Ietereere, nō te mea e mate ana ia.