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Listen & read in about 10-15 minutes a day! 1st Kings 19: Elijah Escapes from Jezebel - Parent Category: 1st Kings: Solomon's Reign Followed by a Divided Kingdom - Category: 1st Kings 17-19: Elijah is God's Prophet in the Days of Ahab 1 Kings 19 Elijah Escapes from Jezebel 19And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword. 2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” 3And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. 4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!” 5Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat.” 6Then he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again. 7And the angel of the Lord came back the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.” 8So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God. 9And there he went into a cave, and spent the night in that place; and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and He said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 10So he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.” God’s Revelation to Elijah 11Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; 12and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice. 13So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 14And he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.” 15Then the Lord said to him: “Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria. 16Also you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king over Israel. And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place. 17It shall be that whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and whoever escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill. 18Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.” Elisha Follows Elijah 19So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him. 20And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?” 21So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant. 1st Kings 20: Ahab Defeats the Syrians - Parent Category: 1st Kings: Solomon's Reign Followed by a Divided Kingdom - Category: 1st Kings 20-22: Ahab's Final Days as King of Israel 1 Kings 20 Ahab Defeats the Syrians 20Now Ben-Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his forces together; thirty-two kings were with him, with horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria, and made war against it. 2Then he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, and said to him, “Thus says Ben-Hadad: 3‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your loveliest wives and children are mine.’ 4And the king of Israel answered and said, “My lord, O king, just as you say, I and all that I have are yours.” 5Then the messengers came back and said, “Thus speaks Ben-Hadad, saying, ‘Indeed I have sent to you, saying, “You shall deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children”; 6but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants. And it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hands and take it.’ 7So the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Notice, please, and see how this man seeks trouble, for he sent to me for my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold; and I did not deny him.” 8And all the elders and all the people said to him, “Do not listen or consent.” 9Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you sent for to your servant the first time I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’ And the messengers departed and brought back word to him. 10Then Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if enough dust is left of Samaria for a handful for each of the people who follow me.” 11So the king of Israel answered and said, “Tell him, ‘Let not the one who puts on his armor boast like the one who takes it off.’ 12And it happened when Ben-Hadad heard this message, as he and the kings were drinking at the command post, that he said to his servants, “Get ready.” And they got ready to attack the city. 13Suddenly a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel, saying, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’ 14So Ahab said, “By whom?” And he said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘By the young leaders of the provinces.’ Then he said, “Who will set the battle in order?” And he answered, “You.” 15Then he mustered the young leaders of the provinces, and there were two hundred and thirty-two; and after them he mustered all the people, all the children of Israel—seven thousand. 16So they went out at noon. Meanwhile Ben-Hadad and the thirty-two kings helping him were getting drunk at the command post. 17The young leaders of the provinces went out first. And Ben-Hadad sent out a patrol, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out of Samaria!” 18So he said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; and if they have come out for war, take them alive.” 19Then these young leaders of the provinces went out of the city with the army which followed them. 20And each one killed his man; so the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the cavalry. 21Then the king of Israel went out and attacked the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter. 22And the prophet came to the king of Israel and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself; take note, and see what you should do, for in the spring of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.” The Syrians Again Defeated 23Then the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. Therefore they were stronger than we; but if we fight against them in the plain, surely we will be stronger than they. 24So do this thing: Dismiss the kings, each from his position, and put captains in their places; 25and you shall muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain; surely we will be stronger than they.” And he listened to their voice and did so. 26So it was, in the spring of the year, that Ben-Hadad mustered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel. 27And the children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and they went against them. Now the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, while the Syrians filled the countryside. 28Then a man of God came and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Because the Syrians have said, “The Lord is God of the hills, but He is not God of the valleys,” therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’ ” 29And they encamped opposite each other for seven days. So it was that on the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand foot soldiers of the Syrians in one day. 30But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; then a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the men who were left. And Ben-Hadad fled and went into the city, into an inner chamber. Ahab’s Treaty with Ben-Hadad 31Then his servants said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please, let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.” 32So they wore sackcloth around their waists and put ropes around their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’ And he said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.” 33Now the men were watching closely to see whether any sign of mercy would come from him; and they quickly grasped at this word and said, “Your brother Ben-Hadad.” So he said, “Go, bring him.” Then Ben-Hadad came out to him; and he had him come up into the chariot. 34So Ben-Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you may set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” Then Ahab said, “I will send you away with this treaty.” So he made a treaty with him and sent him away. Ahab Condemned 35Now a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor by the word of the Lord, “Strike me, please.” And the man refused to strike him. 36Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, surely, as soon as you depart from me, a lion shall kill you.” And as soon as he left him, a lion found him and killed him. 37And he found another man, and said, “Strike me, please.” So the man struck him, inflicting a wound. 38Then the prophet departed and waited for the king by the road, and disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes. 39Now as the king passed by, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and there, a man came over and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’ 40While your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” Then the king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.” 41And he hastened to take the bandage away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets. 42Then he said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Because you have let slip out of your hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.’ 43So the king of Israel went to his house sullen and displeased, and came to Samaria.
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2 राजा अध्याय 6 अगमवक्ताहरूको दलले एलीशालाई भने, “हामी त्यस ठाउँमा बसिरहेका छौं। तर हाम्रोनिम्ति ठाउँ साह्रै सानो भयो। 2 यर्दन नदीमा जाऔं अनि केही काठ काटौं। हामीमध्ये प्रत्येकले मुढो पाउने छौं अनि हामीले त्यहाँ बस्नका लागि एउटा ठाउँ बनाउने छौं।”एलीशाले उत्तर दिए, “राम्रो जाऊ अनि त्यसै गर।” 3 एक जना मानिसले भन्यो, “कृपया हामीसँग हिंड्नुहोस्।” एलीशाले भने, “म आउनेछु।” 4 यसकारण एलीशा अगमवक्ताहरूको दलसँग गए। जब तिनीहरू यर्दन नदीमा पुगे, तिनीहरूले केही रूख ढाल्न थाले। 5 तर जब एक जना मानिस केही रूखहरू काट्दै थियो, फलामको बञ्चरो बिंडमा खुस्केर पानीमा झर्यो। त्यो मानिस करायो, “मालिक, मैले त्यो बञ्चरो मागेर ल्याएको थिएँ।” 6 परमेश्वरको जन एलीशाले भने, “त्यो कहाँ झर्यो?” मानिसले ठाउँ देखायो जहाँ बञ्चरो झरेको थियो। तब एलीशाले एउटा लौरो काटे अनि पानीमा लौरो फ्याँके। लौरोले गर्दा फलामको बञ्चरो तैरिन थाल्यो। 7 एलीशाले भने, “बञ्चरो टिप।” तब मानिस लम्कियो अनि बञ्चरो लियो। 8 अरामका राजा इस्राएलको विरूद्धमा लडाइँ गरिरहेका थिए। उनले आफ्ना सैनिक अधिकारीहरूसँग सल्लाहको सभा राखे। उनले भने, “यस ठाउँमा छाउनी बनाऊँ।” 9 तर परमेश्वरका जन एलीशाले इस्राएलका राजाकहाँ एउटा खबर पठाए। एलीशाले भने, “होशियार रहनुहोस्! त्यस ठाउँको नजिक नजाउनुहोस् अरामी सैनिकहरू त्यहाँ तल गाइरहेका छन्।” 10 इस्राएलका राजाले आफ्नो मानिसहरूलाई त्यस ठाउँमा खबर पठाए कि परमेश्वरको मानिसले यस विषय चेताउनी दिएका थिए। उसले ती खबरहरू कम्तिमा तीनपल्ट पठाए त्यसकारण मानिसहरू होसियार भए। 11 अरामका राजा यस विषयमा साह्रै दुःखी थिए। अरामका राजाले आफ्ना सैनिक अधिकारिहरूलाई बोलाए अनि तिनीहरूलाई भने, “मलाई भन, इस्राएलका राजाको चियो कसले गर्दै छ?” 12 अरामको राजाका अधिकारिहरूमध्ये एक जनाले भने, “मेरो मालिक र महाराज, हामीमध्ये कोही पनि गुप्तचर छैन! इस्राएलका अगमवक्ता, एलीशाले इस्राएलका राजालाई तपाईंले भनेको जे पनि कुराहरू भन्छ यहाँसम्म कि तपाईले सुत्ने कोठामा बोलेका कुरा पनि बताइदिन्छन्।” 13 अरामका राजाले भने, “एलीशाको पत्तो लगाऊ अनि म उसलाई पक्रिन मानिसहरू पठाउने छु।”सेवकहरूले अरामका राजालाई भने, “एलीशा दोतानमा छन्।” 14 तब अरामका राजाले घोडाहरू, रथहरू अनि धेरै सैनिकहरू दोतान पठाए। तिनीहरू राति पुगे अनि शहरलाई घेरे। 15 एलीशाको सेवक त्यस बिहान चाँडै उठेको थियो। सेवक बाहिर निस्कियो अनि उसले देख्यो, शहलाई चारैतिर बाट घोडाहरू र रथहरू सहित सैनिकले घेरेको थियो।एलीशाको सेवकले एलीशालाई भन्यो, “हे, मेरा मालिक, हामी के गर्न सक्छौ?” 16 एलीशाले भने, “नडरा! हाम्रोलागि लडाइँ गर्ने सेना अरामका लागि लडाइँ गर्ने सेना भन्दा ठूलो छ।” 17 तब एलीशाले प्रार्थना गरे अनि भने, “परमप्रभु, म बिन्ती गर्छु तपाई, मेरो सेवकको आँखा खोलि दिनुहोस् जसले गर्दा उसले देख्न सकोस्।”परमप्रभुले युवा सेवकको आखाँ खोलि दिनुभयो अनि सेवकले देख्यो, पाहाड आगोको घोडा अनि रथहरूले घेरिएको थियो। तिनीहरू सबै एलीशाको वारिपरि थिए। 18 ती आगोका घोडा र रथहरू एलीशा छेऊ आए। एलीशाले परमप्रभुसंग प्रार्थना गरे अनि भने, “म प्रार्थना गर्छु तपाईंले यी मानिसहरूलाई अंन्धा बनाइदिनुहोस्।”तब परमप्रभुले त्यसै गर्नुभयो जस्तो एलीशाले भने। परमप्रभुले अरामी सेनाहरूलाई अंन्धो बनाइदिनुभयो। 19 एलीशाले अरामी सेनालाई भने, “यो सही बाटो होइन, यो सही शहर होइन। मेरो अनुसरण गर। म तिमीहरू त्यस मानिसकहाँ पुर्याँउछु जसलाई तिमीहरू खोजि रहेका छौ।” त्यसपछि एलीशाले अरामी सैनिकहरूलाई सामरियामा पुर्याए। 20 जब तिनीहरू सामरियामा पुगे, एलीशाले भने, “परमप्रभु, यी मानिसहरूका आँखा खोलि दिनुहोस्, यिनीहरूले देख्न सकुन्।”तब परमप्रभुले तिनीहरूको आँखा खोलि दिनुभयो अनि अरामी सैनिकले देखे, तिनीहरू सामरिया शहरमा छन्। 21 इस्राएलका राजाले अरामी सेनालाई देखे। इस्राएलका राजाले एलीशालाई भने, “मेरा पिता, के म तिनीहरूलाई मारिदिऊँ? के तिनीहरूलाई मारिदिऊँ?” 22 एलीशाले जवाफ दिए, “अहँ, तिनीहरूलाई नमार। तिमीले तिनीहरूलाई तरवारहरू, धनुषहरू र वाणहरूबाट पक्रेनौं। अरामी सैनिकहरूलाई केही रोटी र पानी देउ। तिनीहरूलाई खाना-पीना देऊ तब आफ्नो मालिकसित भेट्न घर फर्किन देऊ। 23 इस्राएलका राजाले अरामी सैनिकहरूका लागि ठूलो भोज तयार गरे। अरामी सैनिकहरूले खान पान गरे। तब इस्राएलका राजाले तिनीहरूलाई घर फर्काइ दिए। अरामी सैनिकहरू आफ्ना मालिककहाँ घर फर्किए। अरामीहरूले इस्राएलको भूमिमा आक्रमण गर्न कहिले पनि सेनाहरू पठाएन। 24 यस्तो घटना भएपछि अरामका राजा बेनन्हददले आफ्ना सेना जम्मा गरे अनि सामारिया शहरलाई घेर्न र आक्रमण गर्न गए। 25 सैनिकहरूले मानिसहरूलाई शहरभित्र खाद्य ल्याउन दिएनन्। त्यसकारण सामरियामा डरलाग्दो अनिकाल भयो। सामरियामा यस्तो अनिकाल भयो कि एउटा गधाको टाउको चाँदीको अस्सी शेकेलमा बिक्री भयो। एक मुठ्ठी सिमीलाई चाँदीको पाँच शेकेलमा बिक्री भयो। 26 इस्राएलका राजा शहरको वरिपरि भएको पर्खालमाथि हिंडिरहेका थिए। एउटी आइमाईले उनलाई देखेर चिच्याई। आइमाईले भनी, “मेरा मालिक अनि राजा, मलाई सघाउनु होस्।” 27 इस्राएलका राजाले भने, “यदि परमप्रभुले तिमीलाई सहायता गर्नु भएन भने म कसरी सहायता गर्ने? मसित तिमीलाई दिने केही छैन। खलोबाट अन्नको दाना आएको छैन अथवा दाखरसको कोलबाट दाखरस ल्याइएको छैन।” 28 इस्राएलका राजाले आइमाईलाई भने, “तिमीलाई के कष्ट छ?”आइमाईले उत्तर दिई, “यस आइमाईले मलाई भनी, ‘मलाई तेरो छोरा दे जसले गर्दा हामी त्यसलाई मार्न सक्छौ अनि उसलाई आजै खान सक्छौं। त्यसपछि हामी भोलि हाम्रो खाने छौं।’ 29 यसकारण हामीले मेरो छोरा उमाल्यौं अनि उसलाई खायौं। त्यसपछि अर्को दिन मैले यस आइमाईलाई भनें, ‘मलाई तेरो छोरा दे जसले गर्दा हामी उसलाई मार्न सक्छौं अनि खान सक्छौं। तर उसले आफ्नो छोरा लुकाई।” 30 जब राजाले आइमाईलाई के भने, उनले आफूलाई खिन्न भएको देखाउन आफ्नो लुगा च्याते। जब राजा पर्खालमाथि हिंडेको समयमा मानिसहरूले उनलाई आफूलाई उदास र दुःखी देखाउन शोक वस्त्र लगाएको देखे। 31 राजाले भने, “परमेश्वरले मलाई सजाय दिऊन् यदि यस दिनको अन्तसम्म शापातको छोरा एलीशाको टाउको उसको जीउमा रहेको छ भने।” 32 राजाले एक जना दूत एलीशा कहाँ पठाए। एलीशा आफ्नो घरमा बसिरहेका थिए र बूढा-प्रधानहरू उनीसँगै बसेरहेका थिए। दूत पुग्नअघि एलीशाले भने, “हेर, एकजना हत्याराले मेरो टाउको काट्नको निम्ति मानिसहरू पठाउँदै छ। जब दूत यहाँ आइपुग्छ, ढोका बन्द गर। ढोकालाई पक्रेर राख र उसलाई भित्र पस्न देखि रोक। म उसको पछि आएको उसको मालिक पैतालाको आवाज सुन्दैछु।” 33 जब एलीशा आफ्ना ठुला-बडा सित कुरा गरिरहेका थिए, दूत उनीसमक्ष आयो। यस्तो सन्देश थियोः “यो सङ्कट परमप्रभुबाट आएको हो! म किन परमप्रभुलाई धेरै बेरसम्म पर्खिनु?”