The Widow’s Olive Oil
1The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”
2Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?”
“Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”
3Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. 4Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”
5She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. 6When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.”
But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
7She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”
The Shunammite’s Son Restored to Life
8One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat. 9She said to her husband, “I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God. 10Let’s make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us.”
11One day when Elisha came, he went up to his room and lay down there. 12He said to his servant Gehazi, “Call the Shunammite.” So he called her, and she stood before him. 13Elisha said to him, “Tell her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’ ”
She replied, “I have a home among my own people.”
14“What can be done for her?” Elisha asked.
Gehazi said, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”
15Then Elisha said, “Call her.” So he called her, and she stood in the doorway. 16“About this time next year,” Elisha said, “you will hold a son in your arms.”
“No, my lord!” she objected. “Please, man of God, don’t mislead your servant!”
17But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
18The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers. 19He said to his father, “My head! My head!”
His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. 21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.
22She called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return.”
23“Why go to him today?” he asked. “It’s not the New Moon or the Sabbath.”
“That’s all right,” she said.
24She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Lead on; don’t slow down for me unless I tell you.” 25So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.
When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, “Look! There’s the Shunammite! 26Run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’ ”
“Everything is all right,” she said.
27When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me why.”
28“Did I ask you for a son, my lord?” she said. “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t raise my hopes’?”
29Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand and run. Don’t greet anyone you meet, and if anyone greets you, do not answer. Lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
30But the child’s mother said, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
31Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
32When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. 33He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the Lord. 34Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy’s body grew warm. 35Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
36Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite.” And he did. When she came, he said, “Take your son.” 37She came in, fell at his feet and bowed to the ground. Then she took her son and went out.
Death in the Pot
38Elisha returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.”
39One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine and picked as many of its gourds as his garment could hold. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. 40The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.
41Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He put it into the pot and said, “Serve it to the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
Feeding of a Hundred
42A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said.
43“How can I set this before a hundred men?” his servant asked.
But Elisha answered, “Give it to the people to eat. For this is what the Lord says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’ ” 44Then he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the Lord.
以利沙幫助窮寡婦
1有一個先知的妻子哀求以利沙說：「你僕人——我丈夫怎樣敬畏耶和華，你是知道的。如今他去世了，債主來要把我的兩個孩子帶去做奴隸。」 2以利沙問她：「我該怎樣幫你呢？告訴我，你家裡有什麼？」婦人答道：「婢女家什麼也沒有，只有一瓶油。」 3以利沙說：「你去向所有鄰居借空器皿，要儘量多借一些。 4然後回家關上門，你和你兒子在屋裡把那瓶油倒在所有借來的器皿中，裝滿的放在一邊。」 5於是，婦人辭別以利沙，回去後把自己和兒子關在屋裡，兒子遞給她器皿，她就倒油。 6器皿都裝滿了，她對兒子說：「再拿個器皿給我。」兒子說：「已經沒有了。」這時，油止住了。 7婦人將經過告訴上帝的僕人，上帝的僕人對她說：「你去把油賣了還債，你們母子可以用剩下的錢度日。」
以利沙和書念婦人
8一天，以利沙路過書念，那裡一位富有的婦人挽留他吃飯。此後以利沙每次路過那裡，總到她家裡吃飯。 9那婦人對丈夫說：「我看常路過我們這裡的這位是上帝聖潔的僕人。 10不如我們在房頂上給他蓋一間小屋，裡面放床、桌子、椅子和燈。這樣，他來我們家時，可以在那裡休息。」
11一天，以利沙又到了那裡，便在那間小屋裡休息。 12以利沙吩咐僕人基哈西去請書念的婦人。他就請來婦人，婦人站在以利沙面前。 13以利沙吩咐基哈西說：「你對她說，『你為我們費了不少心，我們該為你做些什麼呢？要不要我們在王或元帥面前為你說些好話呢？』」她答道：「我在本族中安居無事。」 14以利沙問基哈西：「我們能為她做什麼呢？」基哈西說：「她沒有兒子，丈夫也已經老了。」 15以利沙說：「你再去請她來。」她來了，站在門口。 16以利沙對她說：「明年這時候，你必抱一個兒子。」她說：「上帝的僕人，我主啊，不要騙婢女。」 17那婦人果然懷了孕，在第二年的那時候生了一個兒子，應驗了以利沙對她說的話。
18孩子漸漸長大。一天，他到收割的人那裡找他父親。 19突然，他對他父親喊道：「我的頭啊！我的頭啊！」他父親見狀立刻吩咐僕人抱他到他母親那裡。 20僕人把他抱起來，送到他母親那裡。孩子坐在母親的膝上，到中午就死了。 21他母親上樓把他放在上帝僕人的床上，關上門出來。 22她叫來丈夫，對他說：「請你預備一個僕人和一頭驢，我好趕快去見上帝的僕人，然後返回來。」 23她丈夫說：「今天不是朔日4·23 「朔日」即每月初一。，也不是安息日，你為什麼要去見他？」婦人說：「放心吧。」 24她騎上驢，對僕人說：「快走吧！我不吩咐你，就不要慢下來。」
25她就去迦密山見上帝的僕人。上帝的僕人遠遠望見她，就對僕人基哈西說：「你看，書念的婦人來了！ 26你跑去迎接她，問問她和她的丈夫與孩子都好嗎。」
婦人對以利沙的僕人說：「一切都好。」
27可是，她上山見到上帝的僕人後，就抱住他的腳。基哈西想要推開她，但上帝的僕人說：「由她吧！因為她心裡非常痛苦。耶和華沒有告訴我發生了什麼事。」 28婦人說：「我何嘗向我主求過兒子呢？我不是對你說不要騙我嗎？」 29以利沙吩咐基哈西：「你要束上腰帶，拿著我的杖去她家。路上不論遇見誰，都不要問候他。有人問候你，也不要作答。去把我的杖放在孩子臉上。」 30孩子的母親說：「我憑永活的耶和華和你的性命起誓，你若不同去，我決不離開你。」於是，以利沙跟她同去。 31基哈西先趕到，把杖放在孩子臉上，可是孩子一點動靜也沒有。他就回去找以利沙，路上碰見他，便說：「孩子還沒醒過來。」
32以利沙進了屋子，看見孩子死了，躺在床上， 33就關上門，向耶和華祈禱。 34禱告後，他上床伏在孩子身上，口對口，眼對眼，手對手，孩子的身體漸漸變暖了。 35然後，以利沙起來在房內來回走了一趟，又上床伏在孩子身上。孩子打了七個噴嚏，便睜開了眼睛。 36以利沙叫基哈西請那婦人來。他便請來婦人，以利沙對婦人說：「把你兒子抱走吧。」 37婦人進來，在以利沙腳前下拜，然後抱起兒子出去了。
用麵粉解毒
38以利沙回到吉甲，那裡正遭遇饑荒。一群先知坐在他面前，他吩咐僕人把一口大鍋放在火上給他們煮湯。 39有個先知到田間摘野菜，看見一棵野瓜藤，便摘了一兜野瓜回來，切碎了放進鍋裡，卻不知道那是什麼瓜。 40湯煮好後倒出來給眾人喝，他們剛喝了一點，就叫道：「上帝的僕人啊，鍋裡有劇毒！」他們都不敢喝了。 41以利沙說：「拿點麵粉來。」他把麵粉撒在鍋裡，說：「倒出來給眾人喝吧。」於是，鍋裡沒有毒了。
用二十個餅餵飽百人
42從巴力·沙利沙來了一個人，他帶了二十個用初熟大麥做的餅和一些麥穗送給上帝的僕人。上帝的僕人說：「分給眾人吃吧。」 43僕人說：「這怎麼夠一百人吃呢？」以利沙說：「你只管分給眾人吃。因為耶和華說，『眾人都能吃飽，並且還會剩下。』」 44於是，僕人將食物擺在眾人面前，他們都吃飽了，果然還有剩餘，正如耶和華所言。
