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1 And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets has cried to Elisha, saying, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you have known that your servant was fearing YHWH, and the lender has come to take my two children to himself for servants.”
1 UNA mujer, de las mujeres de los hijos de los profetas, clamó á Eliseo, diciendo: Tu siervo mi marido es muerto; y tú sabes que tu siervo era temeroso de Jehová: y ha venido el acreedor para tomarse dos hijos míos por siervos.
1 Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
2 And Elisha says to her, “What do I do for you? Declare to me, what do you have in the house?” And she says, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a pot of oil.”
2 Y Eliseo le dijo: ¿Qué te haré yo? Declárame qué tienes en casa. Y ella dijo: Tu sierva ninguna cosa tiene en casa, sino una botija de aceite.
2 Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”
3 And he says, “Go, ask [for] vessels for yourself from outside, from all your neighbors—empty vessels—let [them] not be few;
3 Y él le dijo: Ve, y pide para ti vasos prestados de todos tus vecinos, vasos vacíos, no pocos.
3 Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.
4 and you have entered, and have shut the door on you, and on your sons, and have poured it into all these vessels, and the full ones you remove.”
4 Entra luego, y cierra la puerta tras ti y tras tus hijos; y echa en todos los vasos, y en estando uno lleno, ponlo aparte.
4 Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”
5 And she goes from him, and shuts the door on her, and on her sons; they are bringing [them] near to her, and she is pouring [it] out,
5 Y partióse la mujer de él, y cerró la puerta tras sí y tras sus hijos; y ellos le llegaban [los vasos], y ella echaba [del aceite].
5 So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.
6 and it comes to pass, at the filling of the vessels, that she says to her son, “Bring another vessel near to me,” and he says to her, “There is not another vessel”; and the oil stays.
6 Y como los vasos fueron llenos, dijo á un hijo suyo: Tráeme aún [otro] vaso. Y él dijo: No hay más vasos. Entonces cesó el aceite.
6 When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
7 And she comes and declares [it] to the man of God, and he says, “Go, sell the oil, and repay your loan; and you [and] your sons live off the rest.”
7 Vino ella luego, y contólo al varón de Dios, [el cual] dijo: Ve, y vende el aceite, y paga á tus acreedores; y tú y tus hijos vivid de lo que quedare.
7 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”
8 And the day comes that Elisha passes over to Shunem, and there [is] a great woman, and she lays hold on him to eat bread, and it comes to pass, at the time of his passing over, he turns aside there to eat bread,
8 Y aconteció también que un día pasaba Eliseo por Sunem; y había allí una mujer principal, la cual le constriñó á que comiese del pan: y cuando por allí pasaba, veníase á su casa á comer del pan.
8 One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
9 and she says to her husband, “Now behold, I have known that he is a holy man of God, passing over by us continually;
9 Y ella dijo á su marido: He aquí ahora, yo entiendo que éste que siempre pasa por nuestra casa, es varón de Dios santo.
9 She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.
10 please let us make a little upper chamber of the wall, and we set for him there a bed, and a table, and a high seat, and a lampstand; and it has been, in his coming to us, he turns aside there.”
10 Yo te ruego que hagas una pequeña cámara de paredes, y pongamos en ella cama, y mesa, y silla, y candelero, para que cuando viniere á nosotros, se recoja en ella.
10 Please, let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”
11 And the day comes that he comes in there, and turns aside to the upper chamber, and lies there,
11 Y aconteció que un día vino él por allí, y recogióse en aquella cámara, y durmió en ella.
11 One day he came there, and he went to the room and lay there.
12 and he says to his young man Gehazi, “Call for this Shunammite”; and he calls for her, and she stands before him.
12 Entonces dijo á Giezi su criado: Llama á esta Sunamita. Y como él la llamó, pareció ella delante de él.
12 He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
13 And he says to him, “Now say to her, Behold, you have troubled yourself concerning us with all this trouble; what can [I] do for you? Is it to speak for you to the king, or to the head of the host?” And she says, “I am dwelling in the midst of my people.”
13 Y dijo él á Giezi: Dile: He aquí tú has estado solícita por nosotros con todo este esmero: ¿qué quieres que haga por ti? ¿has menester que hable por ti al rey, ó al general del ejército? Y ella respondió: Yo habito en medio de mi pueblo.
13 He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”
14 And he says, “And what can [I] do for her?” And Gehazi says, “Truly she has no son, and her husband [is] aged.”
14 Y él dijo: ¿Qué pues haremos por ella? Y Giezi respondió: He aquí ella no tiene hijo, y su marido es viejo.
14 He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”
15 And he says, “Call for her”; and he calls for her, and she stands at the opening,
15 Dijo entonces: Llámala. Y él la llamó, y ella se paró á la puerta.
15 He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door.
16 and he says, “At this season, according to the time of life, you are embracing a son”; and she says, “No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your maidservant.”
16 Y él le dijo: A este tiempo según el tiempo de la vida, abrazarás un hijo. Y ella dijo: No, señor mío, varón de Dios, no hagas burla de tu sierva.
16 He said, “At this season next year, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”
17 And the woman conceives and bears a son, at this season, according to the time of life that Elisha spoke of to her.
17 Mas la mujer concibió, y parió un hijo á aquel tiempo que Eliseo le había dicho, según el tiempo de la vida.
17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.
18 And the boy grows, and the day comes that he goes out to his father, to the reapers,
18 Y como el niño fué grande, aconteció que un día salió á su padre, á los segadores.
18 When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers.
19 and he says to his father, “My head, my head”; and he says to the young man, “Carry him to his mother”;
19 Y dijo á su padre: ¡Mi cabeza, mi cabeza! Y él dijo á un criado: Llévalo á su madre.
19 He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20 and he carries him, and brings him to his mother, and he sits on her knees until the noon, and dies.
20 Y habiéndole él tomado, y traídolo á su madre, estuvo sentado sobre sus rodillas hasta medio día, y murióse.
20 When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
21 And she goes up, and lays him on the bed of the man of God, and shuts [the door] on him, and goes out,
21 Ella entonces subió, y púsolo sobre la cama del varón de Dios, y cerrándole [la puerta], salióse.
21 She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out.
22 and calls to her husband and says, “Please send one of the young men and one of the donkeys to me, and I run to the man of God, and return.”
22 Llamando luego á su marido, díjole: Ruégote que envíes conmigo á alguno de los criados y una de las asnas, para que yo vaya corriendo al varón de Dios, y vuelva.
22 She called to her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and come again.”
23 And he says, “Why are you going to him today? [It is] neither new moon nor Sabbath!” And she says, “Peace [to you]!”
23 Y él dijo: ¿Para qué has de ir á él hoy? No es nueva luna, ni sábado. Y ella respondió: Paz.
23 He said, “Why would you want to go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.” She said, “It’s all right.”
24 And she saddles the donkey and says to her young man, “Lead, and go, do not restrain riding for me, except I have commanded [so] to you.”
24 Después hizo enalbardar una borrica, y dijo al mozo: Guía y anda; y no me hagas detener para que suba, sino cuando yo te lo dijere.
24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”
25 And she goes, and comes to the man of God, to the hill of Carmel, and it comes to pass, at the man of God’s seeing her from within view, that he says to his young man Gehazi, “Behold, this Shunammite;
25 Partióse pues, y vino al varón de Dios al monte del Carmelo. Y cuando el varón de Dios la vió de lejos, dijo á su criado Giezi: He aquí la Sunamita:
25 So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.
26 now please run to meet her, and say to her, Is there peace to you? Is there peace to your husband? Is there peace to the boy?” And she says, “Peace.”
26 Ruégote que vayas ahora corriendo á recibirla, y dile: ¿Tienes paz? ¿y tu marido, y tu hijo? Y ella dijo: Paz.
26 Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’” She answered, “It is well.”
27 And she comes to the man of God, to the hill, and lays hold on his feet, and Gehazi comes near to thrust her away, and the man of God says, “Leave her alone, for her soul [is] bitter to her, and YHWH has hidden [it] from me, and has not declared [it] to me.”
27 Y luego que llegó al varón de Dios en el monte, asió de sus pies. Y llegóse Giezi para quitarla; mas el varón de Dios le dijo: Déjala, porque su alma está en amargura, y Jehová me ha encubierto [el motivo], y no me lo ha revelado.
27 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”
28 And she says, “Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say, Do not deceive me?”
28 Y ella dijo: ¿Pedí yo hijo á mi señor? ¿No dije yo, que no me burlases?
28 Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”
29 And he says to Gehazi, “Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go; when you meet a man, you do not greet him; and when a man greets you, you do not answer him; and you have laid my staff on the face of the youth.”
29 Entonces dijo él á Giezi: Ciñe tus lomos, y toma mi bordón en tu mano, y ve; y si alguno te encontrare, no lo saludes; y si alguno te saludare, no le respondas: y pondrás mi bordón sobre el rostro del niño.
29 Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”
30 And the mother of the youth says, “YHWH lives, and your soul lives—if I leave you”; and he rises and goes after her.
30 Y dijo la madre del niño: Vive Jehová, y vive tu alma, que no te dejaré.
30 The child’s mother said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So he arose, and followed her.
31 And Gehazi has passed on before them, and lays the staff on the face of the youth, and there is no voice, and there is no attention, and he turns back to meet him, and declares to him, saying, “The youth has not awoken.”
31 El entonces se levantó, y siguióla. Y Giezi había ido delante de ellos, y había puesto el bordón sobre el rostro del niño, mas ni tenía voz ni sentido; y así se había vuelto para encontrar á Eliseo; y declaróselo, diciendo: El mozo no despierta.
31 Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”
32 And Elisha comes into the house, and behold, the youth is dead, laid on his bed,
32 Y venido Eliseo á la casa, he aquí el niño que estaba tendido muerto sobre su cama.
32 When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying on his bed.
33 and he goes in and shuts the door on them both, and prays to YHWH.
33 Entrando él entonces, cerró la puerta sobre ambos, y oró á Jehová.
33 He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.
34 And he goes up, and lies down on the boy, and puts his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands, and stretches himself on him, and the flesh of the boy becomes warm;
34 Después subió, y echóse sobre el niño, poniendo su boca sobre la boca de él, y sus ojos sobre sus ojos, y sus manos sobre las manos suyas; así se tendió sobre él, y calentóse la carne del joven.
34 He went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the child’s flesh grew warm.
35 and he turns back and walks in the house, once here and once there, and goes up and stretches himself on him, and the youth sneezes until seven times, and the youth opens his eyes.
35 Volviéndose luego, paseóse por la casa á una parte y á otra, y después subió, y tendióse sobre él; y el joven estornudó siete veces, y abrió sus ojos.
35 Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth, then went up and stretched himself out on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
36 And he calls to Gehazi and says, “Call to this Shunammite”; and he calls her, and she comes to him, and he says, “Lift up your son.”
36 Entonces llamó él á Giezi, y díjole: Llama á esta Sunamita. Y él la llamó. Y entrando ella, él le dijo: Toma tu hijo.
36 He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”
37 And she goes in, and falls at his feet, and bows herself to the earth, and lifts up her son, and goes out.
37 Y así que ella entró, echóse á sus pies, é inclinóse á tierra: después tomó su hijo, y salióse.
37 Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; then she picked up her son, and went out.
38 And Elisha has turned back to Gilgal, and the famine [is] in the land, and the sons of the prophets are sitting before him, and he says to his young man, “Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
38 Y Eliseo se volvió á Gilgal. Había entonces grande hambre en la tierra. Y los hijos de los profetas estaban con él, por lo que dijo á su criado: Pon una grande olla, y haz potaje para los hijos de los profetas.
38 Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
39 And one goes out to the field to gather herbs, and finds a vine of the field, and gathers gourds of the field from it—the fullness of his garment—and comes in and splits [them] into the pot of stew, for they did not know [them];
39 Y salió uno al campo á coger hierbas, y halló una [como] parra montés, y cogió de ella una faldada de calabazas silvestres: y volvió, y cortólas en la olla del potaje: porque no sabía [lo que era].
39 One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them.
40 and they pour out for the men to eat, and it comes to pass at their eating of the stew, that they have cried out, and say, “Death [is] in the pot, O man of God!” And they have not been able to eat.
40 Echóse después para que comieran los hombres; pero sucedió que comiendo ellos de aquel guisado, dieron voces, diciendo: ¡Varón de Dios, la muerte en la olla! Y no lo pudieron comer.
40 So they poured out for the men to eat. As they were eating some of the stew, they cried out and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.
41 And he says, “Then bring a meal”; and he casts into the pot and says, “Pour out for the people, and they eat”; and there was no bad thing in the pot.
41 El entonces dijo: Traed harina. Y esparcióla en la olla, y dijo: Echa de comer á la gente. Y no hubo más mal en la olla.
41 But he said, “Then bring meal.” He threw it into the pot; and he said, “Serve it to the people, that they may eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
42 And a man has come from Ba‘al-Shalishah, and brings to the man of God bread of first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of grain in its husk, and he says, “Give to the people, and they eat.”
42 Vino entonces un hombre de Baal-salisa, el cual trajo al varón de Dios panes de primicias, veinte panes de cebada, y trigo nuevo en su espiga. Y él dijo: Da á la gente para que coman.
42 A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”
43 And his minister says, “How do I give this before one hundred men?” And he says, “Give to the people, and they eat, for thus said YHWH: Eat and leave”;
43 Y respondió su sirviente: ¿Cómo he de poner esto delante de cien hombres? Mas él tornó á decir: Da á la gente para que coman, porque así ha dicho Jehová: Comerán, y sobrará.
43 His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But he said, “Give it to the people, that they may eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’”
44 and he gives before them, and they eat and leave, according to the word of YHWH.
44 Entonces él lo puso delante de ellos, y comieron, y sobróles, conforme á la palabra de Jehová.
44 So he set it before them and they ate and had some left over, according to Yahweh’s word.
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Gehazi
Elisha's servant, who carried messages to the Shunammite woman, took gifts from Naaman by deceit and was struck with Naaman's leprosy, and later told the king of Elisha's wonders.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 4:12; 2 Kings 4:31; 2 Kings 5:20
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- 1 Matthew 18:25; 2 Kings 2:3; Nehemiah 5:2–5; Psalm 147:11; Leviticus 25:39–41
- 2 1 Kings 17:12; James 2:5; Matthew 15:34; 2 Kings 2:9; John 6:5–7
- 3 John 2:7; John 16:24; Psalm 81:10; 2 Kings 13:18–19; 2 Kings 3:16
- 4 Mark 8:5–9; Matthew 6:6; 2 Kings 4:32–33; John 2:7–9; Acts 9:40
- 5 2 Kings 5:11; Hebrews 11:7–8; 1 Kings 17:15–16; Luke 1:45
- 6 Matthew 14:20; 2 Kings 13:19; 2 Chronicles 6:12–13; Matthew 13:58; 1 Kings 17:14
- 7 2 Thessalonians 3:7–12; 1 Kings 12:22; Psalm 37:21; Philippians 4:8; Romans 12:17
- 8 Joshua 19:18; 2 Kings 4:11–12; Job 32:9; Job 1:3; Genesis 19:3
- 9 1 Kings 17:24; Proverbs 31:10–11; 2 Kings 4:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; Titus 1:8
- 10 Romans 12:13; Matthew 10:41–42; Matthew 25:40; Hebrews 10:24; Hebrews 13:2
- 12 2 Kings 8:4–5; 1 Kings 19:3; 2 Kings 4:29–31; 2 Kings 5:20–27; 2 Kings 3:11
- 13 2 Timothy 1:16–18; Philippians 4:18–19; Hebrews 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:6–8; 1 Thessalonians 5:12–13
- 14 Luke 1:7; 1 Samuel 1:8; Genesis 15:2–3; Genesis 18:10–14; Judges 13:2
- 16 Genesis 18:10; Luke 1:13; 2 Kings 4:28; Genesis 18:12–15; Genesis 17:21
- 17 Genesis 21:1; Luke 1:36; Psalm 113:9; Hebrews 11:11; 1 Samuel 1:19–20
- 18 Ruth 2:4
- 19 Job 14:1–2; Jeremiah 4:19
- 20 Luke 7:12; John 11:5; John 11:3; John 11:14; 1 Kings 17:17
- 21 2 Kings 4:32; 1 Kings 17:19; 2 Kings 4:7; 2 Kings 4:10
- 22 Acts 9:38; 2 Kings 4:26; John 11:3; 2 Kings 4:24
- 23 Numbers 10:10; 1 Chronicles 23:31; Numbers 28:11; Isaiah 1:13–15
- 24 1 Samuel 25:19–20; Exodus 4:20; 1 Kings 13:23; 1 Kings 13:13
- 25 2 Kings 2:25; Isaiah 35:2; 1 Kings 18:19; 1 Kings 18:42
- 26 Acts 15:36; 2 Kings 4:23; 1 Samuel 17:18; 1 Samuel 3:18; Job 1:21–22
- 27 2 Samuel 7:3; Genesis 18:17; Amos 3:7; 1 Samuel 1:10; 2 Kings 4:25
- 28 Genesis 30:1; 2 Kings 4:16
- 29 2 Kings 2:14; 1 Kings 18:46; Exodus 14:16; Luke 10:4; 2 Kings 9:1
- 30 2 Kings 2:2; Ruth 1:16–18; 2 Kings 2:4; Exodus 33:12–16
- 31 John 11:11; Mark 5:39; 1 Kings 18:29; Ephesians 5:14; Matthew 17:16–20
- 32 1 Kings 17:17; John 11:17; Luke 8:52–53
- 33 Matthew 6:6; 2 Kings 4:4; Acts 9:40; James 5:13–18; Luke 8:51
- 34 1 Kings 17:21; Acts 20:10
- 35 2 Kings 8:5; 2 Kings 13:21; 1 Kings 17:22; Acts 9:40; John 11:43–44
- 36 Hebrews 11:35; 1 Kings 17:23; Luke 7:15
- 37 Hebrews 11:35; 2 Kings 2:15; 1 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 4:27
- 38 2 Kings 8:1; 2 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 2:1; Luke 10:39; Acts 22:3
- 39 Isaiah 5:4; Jeremiah 2:21; Matthew 15:13; Hebrews 12:15
- 40 Mark 16:18; Exodus 15:23; Exodus 10:17; 2 Kings 1:11; 1 Kings 17:18
- 41 Exodus 15:25; 2 Kings 2:21; 1 Corinthians 1:25; Acts 28:5; 2 Kings 5:10
- 42 1 Samuel 9:7; Matthew 14:16–21; John 6:13; John 6:9; 1 Samuel 9:4
- 43 Luke 9:13; Matthew 14:20; John 6:9; Matthew 16:8–10; John 6:11–13
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