Elisha Helps a Poor Widow
1 The widow of a member of a group of prophets went to Elisha and said, “Sir, my husband has died! As you know, he was a God-fearing man, but now a man he owed money to has come to take away my two sons as slaves in payment for my husband's debt.”
2 “What shall I do for you?” he asked. “Tell me, what do you have at home?”
“Nothing at all, except a small jar of olive oil,” she answered.
3 “Go to your neighbors and borrow as many empty jars as you can,” Elisha told her. 4 “Then you and your sons go into the house, close the door, and start pouring oil into the jars. Set each one aside as soon as it is full.”
5 So the woman went into her house with her sons, closed the door, took the small jar of olive oil, and poured oil into the jars as her sons brought them to her. 6 When they had filled all the jars, she asked if there were any more. “That was the last one,” one of her sons answered. And the olive oil stopped flowing. 7 She went back to Elisha, the prophet, who said to her, “Sell the olive oil and pay all your debts, and there will be enough money left over for you and your sons to live on.”
Elisha and the Rich Woman from Shunem
8 One day Elisha went to Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She invited him to a meal, and from then on every time he went to Shunem he would have his meals at her house. 9 She said to her husband, “I am sure that this man who comes here so often is a holy man. 10 Let's build a small room on the roof, put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp in it, and he can stay there whenever he visits us.”
11 One day Elisha returned to Shunem and went up to his room to rest. 12 He told his servant Gehazi to go and call the woman. When she came, 13 he said to Gehazi, “Ask her what I can do for her in return for all the trouble she has had in providing for our needs. Maybe she would like me to go to the king or the army commander and put in a good word for her.”
“I have all I need here among my own people,” she answered.
14 Elisha asked Gehazi, “What can I do for her then?”
He answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is an old man.”
15 “Tell her to come here,” Elisha ordered. She came and stood in the doorway, 16 and Elisha said to her, “By this time next year you will be holding a son in your arms.”
“Oh!” she exclaimed. “Please, sir, don't lie to me. You are a man of God!”
17 But, as Elisha had said, at about that time the following year she gave birth to a son.
18 Some years later, at harvest time, the boy went out one morning to join his father, who was in the field with the harvest workers. 19 Suddenly he cried out to his father, “My head hurts! My head hurts!”
“Carry the boy to his mother,” the father said to a servant. 20 The servant carried the boy back to his mother, who held him in her lap until noon, at which time he died. 21 She carried him up to Elisha's room, put him on the bed and left, closing the door behind her. 22 Then she called her husband and said to him, “Send a servant here with a donkey. I need to go to the prophet Elisha. I'll be back as soon as I can.”
23 “Why do you have to go today?” her husband asked. “It's neither a Sabbath nor a New Moon Festival.”
“Never mind,” she answered. 24 Then she had the donkey saddled, and ordered the servant, “Make the donkey go as fast as it can, and don't slow down unless I tell you to.” 25 So she set out and went to Mount Carmel, where Elisha was.
Elisha saw her coming while she was still some distance away, and he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there comes the woman from Shunem! 26 Hurry to her and find out if everything is all right with her, her husband, and her son.”
She told Gehazi that everything was all right, 27 but when she came to Elisha, she bowed down before him and took hold of his feet. Gehazi was about to push her away, but Elisha said, “Leave her alone. Can't you see she's deeply distressed? And the Lord has not told me a thing about it.”
28 The woman said to him, “Sir, did I ask you for a son? Didn't I tell you not to get my hopes up?”
29 Elisha turned to Gehazi and said, “Hurry! Take my walking stick and go. Don't stop to greet anyone you meet, and if anyone greets you, don't take time to answer. Go straight to the house and hold my stick over the boy.”
30 The woman said to Elisha, “I swear by my loyalty to the living Lord and to you that I will not leave you!” So the two of them started back together. 31 Gehazi went on ahead and held Elisha's stick over the child, but there was no sound or any other sign of life. So he went back to meet Elisha and said, “The boy didn't wake up.”
32 When Elisha arrived, he went alone into the room and saw the boy lying dead on the bed. 33 He closed the door and prayed to the Lord. 34 Then he lay down on the boy, placing his mouth, eyes, and hands on the boy's mouth, eyes, and hands. As he lay stretched out over the boy, the boy's body started to get warm. 35 Elisha got up, walked around the room, and then went back and again stretched himself over the boy. The boy sneezed seven times and then opened his eyes. 36 Elisha called Gehazi and told him to call the boy's mother. When she came in, he said to her, “Here's your son.” 37 She fell at Elisha's feet, with her face touching the ground; then she took her son and left.
Two More Miracles
38 Once, when there was a famine throughout the land, Elisha returned to Gilgal. While he was teaching a group of prophets, he told his servant to put a big pot on the fire and make some stew for them. 39 One of them went out in the fields to get some herbs. He found a wild vine and picked as many gourds as he could carry. He brought them back and sliced them up into the stew, not knowing what they were. 40 The stew was poured out for the men to eat, but as soon as they tasted it they exclaimed to Elisha, “It's poisoned!”—and wouldn't eat it. 41 Elisha asked for some meal, threw it into the pot, and said, “Pour out some more stew for them.” And then there was nothing wrong with it.
42 Another time, a man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing Elisha twenty loaves of bread made from the first barley harvested that year, and some freshly-cut heads of grain. Elisha told his servant to feed the group of prophets with this, 43 but he answered, “Do you think this is enough for a hundred men?”
Elisha replied, “Give it to them to eat, because the Lord says that they will eat and still have some left over.” 44 So the servant set the food before them, and as the Lord had said, they all ate, and there was still some left over.
Elisa ta kwatha omuselekadhi
1 Omuselekadhi gwomuhunganeki gumwe okwa yi kuElisa e ta ti: “Tatekulu, omusamane gwandje okwa si! Okwa li omulumentu omutilikalunga, ngaashi u shi shi. Nena omupulingunga gumwe okwa adha ndje a hala okukutha po aamwandjemati yaali omolwoongunga, ya ninge aapika ye.”
2 Elisa okwa pula a ti: “Hm, otandi ku ningi ngiinyee? Lombwela ndje, oshike u na maandjeni?”
Omukulukadhi okwa yamukula a ti: “Kandi na sha tuu, kakele kokayo ke na uugadhi.”
3 Elisa okwe mu lombwele a ti: “Inda kaashiinda yoye, u ka hehele iiyuma oyindji yaa na sha. 4 Inda ihe naamwoyemati megumbo, edhila omweelo e to tameke okupimpila omagadhi miiyuma. Shoka shu udha, shi itulila mpee.”
5 Omuselekadhi okwa yi megumbo lye pamwe noyanamati nokwe edhile omweelo. Okwa kutha okayo komagadhi e te ga tile miiyuma mbyoka oyanamati taye mu etele. 6 Sho yu udhitha iiyuma ayihe, okwa pula, ngele opu na natango oshiyuma. Gumwe gwomoyanamati okwa ti: “Aawe, shika osho sha li shahugunina.” Omagadhi noga sheka okuvila. 7 Omuselekadhi okwa shuna komuhunganeki Elisa, ngoka a ti kuye: “Landitha po omagadhi e to futu oongunga dhoye adhihe noto ki ihupithila po iimaliwa ye ku gwanena naamwoyemati, mu ipaluthe nayo.”
Elisa nomukiintu omuyamba Omushunem
8 Esiku limwe Elisa okwa yi kuShunem, nkoka kwa li omukiintu omuyamba. Omukiintu okwe mu ithana komwiha, nokuza mpoka shaa ngaa a ka yile kuShunem, oha li megumbo lyaandjawo. 9 Omukiintu okwa lombwele omulume a ti: “Ngame ondi shi shi nawa kutya omulumentu nguka he ya kaandjetu olwindji, oye omuyapuki. 10 Natu mu tungile ela lye kombanda yongulu moka mwa tulwa ombete, oshitaafula, oshipundi nolamba, opo a vule okumenekela putse, uuna te tu talele po.”
11 Esiku limwe Elisa okwa galukile kuShunem e ta londo, a ka vululukwe mondunda ye pombanda. 12 Okwa lombwele omumati gwe Gehasi, a ye a ka ithane omukulukadhi. Sho e ya, 13 okwa ti kuGehasi: “Mu pula kutya okwa hala ndi mu ningile shike, sho e tu kwatha ngeyi moompumbwe dhetu. Pamwe okwa hala ndi ye nando okomukwaniilwa nenge kondjayi yaakwiita, ndi ke mu popile.”
Omukiintu okwa yamukula a ti: “Ondi na ayihe nde yi pumbwa, oshoka ondi li mokati kaantu yaandjetu.”
14 Elisa okwa pula Gehasi a ti: “Ope na tuu sha te vulu oku mu ningila?”
Gehasi okwa yamukula a ti: “Ope na, oshoka ke na munona, nomulume okwa kulupa.”
15 Elisa okwa ti: “Mu ithana, e ye huka.” Omukiintu okwe ya nokwa thikama pomweelo. 16 Elisa okwa ti kuye: “Pethimbo ngaandika omumvo tagu ya oto ka kala wa ukata okanona okamati momaako goye.”
Omukiintu okwi igidha a ti: “Atyetyetye! Tatekulu, ino fundja ndje. Ngoye omuntu gwaKalunga.”
17 Ihe lwopethimbo ngaandyoka lyomumvo gwa landula ko omukiintu okwa vala okanona okamati, ngaashi Elisa a tile.
18 Omimvo dhimwe sho dha piti po, pethimbo lyeteyo, omumati okwa zi megumbo ongula yimwe, a ye kuhe a li mepya pamwe naateyi. 19 Ohaluka okwi igidha he ta ti: “Omutse gwandje tagu pwatuka! Omutse gwandje tagu pwatuka!”
He okwa ti komupiya: “Fala omumati kuyina!” 20 Omupiya okwe mu yambula po e te mu fala kuyina, ngoka e mu kuutumbike komatundji ge sigo omutenya, nopethimbo ndyoka omumati okwa si. 21 Yina okwe mu yambula po e te mu fala mondunda yaElisa. Okwe mu langeke kombete e ta zi po nokwe edhile omweelo. 22 Nena okwi ithana omulume e ta ti kuye: “Tumina ndje omupiya nokasino. Ote pumbwa okuya komuhunganeki Elisa. Otandi galuka mbalambala.”
23 Omulume okwe mu pula a ti: “Omolwashike u na okuya nena? Kali shi esiku lyEsabati nenge oshituthi shomwedhi omupe.”
Omukiintu okwa yamukula a ti: “Kape na mbudhi.” 24 Nena okwa kutilitha okasino e ta lombwele omupiya ta ti: “Tidha okasino, ke endelele; ino fudha, manga inaandi ku lombwela!” 25 Osho a zi mo e ta yi kondundu Karmel, nkoka kwa li Elisa.
Elisa okwe mu mono te ya kuye, manga a li kokule e ta ti komumati gwe Gehasi: “Tala, omukulukadhi gwokuShunem! 26 Endelela, u ke mu pule, ngele ye mwene, omulume nomwanamati oye li tuu nawa.”
Omukulukadhi okwa lombwele Gehasi kutya oye li nawa, 27 ihe sho e ya kuElisa, okwe mu inyongamene e te mu kwata koompadhi. Gehasi okwa li a hala e mu undule po, ihe Elisa okwa ti: “Mu etha; ku wete kutya okwa nika oluhodhi olunene? NOmuwa ine shi lombwela ndje.”
28 Omukulukadhi okwa ti kuye: “Tatekulu, onde ku pulile omunona? Kanda li nda tya, ino fundja ndje?”
29 Elisa okwa shuna kuGehasi e ta ti: “Endelela! Kutha ondhimbo yandje e to yi. Ino thikama, u kunde ngo te ku tsakaneke, nongele ku na ngoka te ku kundu, ino mana po ethimbo noku mu yamukula. Ukilila kegumbo nou yeluthile ondhimbo yandje komumati.”
30 Omukulukadhi okwa ti kuElisa: “Otandi gana kOmuwa omunamwenyo nokungoye kutya itandi ku thigi po!” Osho ngaaka Elisa okwa yi pamwe naye. 31 Gehasi okwe ya tetekelele e ta yeluthile omumati ondhimbo yaElisa, ihe muye kamwa li omufudho nenge endhindhiliko lyomwenyo. Onkee a shuna, a ka tsakaneke Elisa e ta ti: “Omumati ina penduka nande.”
32 Elisa sho a thiki, okwa yi mondunda oye awike e ta mono omumati a lala mombete a sa. 33 Okwe edhile omweelo nokwa galikana Omuwa. 34 Nena okwa lala pomumati a tula okana ke pokana komumati, omeho ge pomeho gomumati niikaha ye piikaha yomumati. Sho a lala a laminina omumati, olutu lwomumati olwa tameke okupupyala. 35 Elisa okwa penduka po, e endagula nondunda nokwa shuna ishewe e ta lala komumati. Omumati okwa shemita luheyali, nopo ihe a tonata. 36 Elisa okwi ithana Gehasi e te mu lombwele, i ithane yina yomumati. Yina sho e ya mo, Elisa okwa ti kuye: “Omumwoye oye nguka.” 37 Nena yina okwi inyongamene koompadhi dhaElisa a tsa oshipala pevi; opo ihe okwa toola po omwana e ta yi.
Iinyengandunge iyali iinene
38 Esiku limwe oshilongo ashihe sho sha li shi na ondjala, Elisa okwa galukile kuGilgal. Manga a li ta nongeke ongundu yaahunganeki, okwa lombwele omupiya gwe, a tule po ombiga onene peziko, e ya telekele iikulya. 39 Gumwe gwomuyo okwa yi melundu, a ka tale iikwamboga. Okwi itsu okatanga kamuthithi e ta kutha ko uutanga, ngaashi ta vulu oku u humbata monguwo ye. Okwe u eta e te u pambulile mombiga, oshoka ine u tseya. 40 Iikulya oya hukulilwa aantu ya lye, ihe sho ye yi makele, oyi igidha Elisa taa ti: “Eso mombiga!” — noinaa vula oku yi lya. 41 Elisa okwa pula, e etelwe uusila, e te u zikile mombiga e ta ti: “Yi hukululileni ishewe aantu.” Nena kapwa li we oshiponga shasha.
42 Esiku limwe omulumentu gumwe okwa zi kuBaal Shalisha e etela Elisa iikwiila omilongo mbali yiilya iipe yomumvo ngoka nomaha omayihu. Elisa okwa lombwele omupiya gwe, a paluthe nayo ongundu yaahunganeki, 43 ihe omupiya okwa yamukula a ti: “Oto dhiladhila kutya otayi gwanene aalumentu ethele?”
Elisa okwa yamukula a ti: “Yi ya pa, ya lye, oshoka Omuwa ota ti, otaa ka lya e taa hupitha ko.” 44 Omumati okwa tula iikulya puyo, nongaashi Omuwa a popi, ayehe oya lya nokwa hupu sha natango.
