Translation, 2 Kings 7

Translation, 2 Kings 7

And said ‘Eliysha’, “Hear the word of Yahweh, Thus says Yahweh, ‘According to the time tomorrow a seah of fine-flour by a sheqel And a double-seah of barley by a sheqel in the gate of Shomron.” And answered the officer who was to the king - he leaned himself on his hand - [to] the man of the Elohim, and he said, “Look! Yahweh making windows in the heavens Would this thing/word be?” And he said, “Look you! Seeing with your eyes And from there you shall not eat.”

Now four men were struck-with-skin-disease [at] the opening of the gate. And they said, each to his friend, “Why are we ourselves sitting thus until we die? If we say ‘We shall enter the city,’ then the famine/hunger [is] in the city and we die there. But if we sit thus, then we shall die. But now, let us walk/go and fall to the camp of ‘Aram. If they restore-to-life, we live. And if they cause-us-to-die, we die.” And they arose in twilight to enter to the camp of ‘Aram. And they entered until the outskirts of the famp of ‘Aram Now look! There is not there a man.

Now the master caused-to-hear the camp of ‘Aram the voice of chariot and the voice of horse and the voice of a strong-army, a great one. And they said each to his brother “Look! Hired against us the king of Yisrael the kings of the Chittiym and the kings of Mitzraim to enter against us.” And they arose and they fled in the twilight And they forsook their tents and their horses And their he-donkeys And the camp just as it [was]. And they fled to their souls.

And entered these skin-struck until the outskirts of the camp And they entered to the one tent And they ate and they drank And they carried from there silver and gold and garments. And they walked/went and hid them. And they returned and went to one tent, And they carried from there And they walked/went and hid them.

And they said each to his neighbor, “Not right we ourselves [are] doing. This day a day of news [is] it. But we ourselves cause silence. And we lie-in-wait until the light of morning And guilt discovers us. But now walk/go and enter and report the house of the king.” And they entered and called to the gatekeeper of the city And they reported to them, saying, “We entered to the camp of ‘Aram. Now look! There is not there a man, And [not] the voice of an Adam, except the horse bound And the he-donkey bound And the tents just as they [were].”

And the gatekeepers called and reported inside the house of the king. And arose the king at night and said to his servant, “I will report, please, to you what ‘Aran has done to us. They know that we ourselves [are] hungering And they went out from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘For they shall come out from the city, And we shall capture them alive And to the city we shall enter.’” And answered one from his servants and he said, “Let us take, please, five from the remaining horses which remain in her. Behold, according to all the abundance of Yisrael which remain in her Behold, according to all the abundance of Yisrael which died. And let us send and let us see.” And they took two chariots and horses And send the king after the camp of ‘Aram, saying, “Go/walk and see.”

And they went after them until the Yarden Now look! All the way filled [with] garments and vessels Which ‘Aram threw in their alarm. And returned the messengers and reported to the king.

And went out the people and plundered the camp of ‘Aram. And it was a seah of fine-flour at a sheqel And a double-seah of barley at a sheqel, According to the word of Yahweh. Now the king appointed the officer which he leaned on his hand over the gate. And the people trampled him in the gate And he died according to the word of the man of the ‘Elohim which he spoke in the coming-down of the king to him.

And it was according to the word of the man of the ‘Elohim to the king, saying, “A double-seah of barley at a sheqel And a seah of fine-flour at a sheqel will be according to the time tomorrow in the gate of Shomron.” And answered the officer [to] the man of the Elohim, saying, “Now look! Yahweh making windows in the heavens Would it be according to this word/thing?” And he said, “Look-you! Seeing with your eyes but from there you shall not eat.” And it was to him thus. And they trampled him, the people, in the gate And he died.