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4 The 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.” 2 Elisha 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.” 3 Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. 4 Then 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.” 5 She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. 6 When 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. 7 She 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.” 8 One 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. 9 She said to her husband, “I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God. 10 Let’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.” 11 One day when Elisha came, he went up to his room and lay down there. 12 He said to his servant Gehazi, “Call the Shunammite.” So he called her, and she stood before him. 13 Elisha 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.” 15 Then 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!” 17 But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her. 18 The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers. 19 He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20 After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. 21 She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out. 22 She 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. 24 She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Lead on; don’t slow down for me unless I tell you.” 25 So 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! 26 Run 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. 27 When 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’?” 29 Elisha 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.” 30 But 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. 31 Gehazi 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.” 32 When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. 33 He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the Lord. 34 Then 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. 35 Elisha 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. 36 Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite.” And he did. When she came, he said, “Take your son.” 37 She came in, fell at his feet and bowed to the ground. Then she took her son and went out. 38 Elisha 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.” 39 One 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. 40 The 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. 41 Elisha 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. 42 A 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.’” 44 Then he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the Lord. 5 Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy.[a] 2 Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. 3 She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.” 4 Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said. 5 “By all means, go,” the king of Aram replied. “I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents[b] of silver, six thousand shekels[c] of gold and ten sets of clothing. 6 The letter that he took to the king of Israel read: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you so that you may cure him of his leprosy.” 7 As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me!” 8 When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message: “Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9 So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house. 10 Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.” 11 But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage. 13 Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’!” 14 So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy. 15 Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.” 16 The prophet answered, “As surely as the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will not accept a thing.” And even though Naaman urged him, he refused. 17 “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the Lord. 18 But may the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to bow down and he is leaning on my arm and I have to bow there also—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.” 19 “Go in peace,” Elisha said. After Naaman had traveled some distance, 20 Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he brought. As surely as the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.” 21 So Gehazi hurried after Naaman. When Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him. “Is everything all right?” he asked. 22 “Everything is all right,” Gehazi answered. “My master sent me to say, ‘Two young men from the company of the prophets have just come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent[d] of silver and two sets of clothing.’” 23 “By all means, take two talents,” said Naaman. He urged Gehazi to accept them, and then tied up the two talents of silver in two bags, with two sets of clothing. He gave them to two of his servants, and they carried them ahead of Gehazi. 24 When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the things from the servants and put them away in the house. He sent the men away and they left. 25 When he went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” “Your servant didn’t go anywhere,” Gehazi answered. 26 But Elisha said to him, “Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female slaves? 27 Naaman’s leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever.” Then Gehazi went from Elisha’s presence and his skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow. 6 The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. 2 Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.” And he said, “Go.” 3 Then one of them said, “Won’t you please come with your servants?” “I will,” Elisha replied. 4 And he went with them. They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees. 5 As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. “Oh no, my lord!” he cried out. “It was borrowed!” 6 The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float. 7 “Lift it out,” he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it. 8 Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel. After conferring with his officers, he said, “I will set up my camp in such and such a place.” 9 The man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Beware of passing that place, because the Arameans are going down there.” 10 So the king of Israel checked on the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places. 11 This enraged the king of Aram. He summoned his officers and demanded of them, “Tell me! Which of us is on the side of the king of Israel?” 12 “None of us, my lord the king,” said one of his officers, “but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.” 13 “Go, find out where he is,” the king ordered, “so I can send men and capture him.” The report came back: “He is in Dothan.” 14 Then he sent horses and chariots and a strong force there. They went by night and surrounded the city. 15 When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. “Oh no, my lord! What shall we do?” the servant asked. 16 “Don’t be afraid,” the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” 17 And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. 18 As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Strike this army with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked. 19 Elisha told them, “This is not the road and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to Samaria. 20 After they entered the city, Elisha said, “Lord, open the eyes of these men so they can see.” Then the Lord opened their eyes and they looked, and there they were, inside Samaria. 21 When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “Shall I kill them, my father? Shall I kill them?” 22 “Do not kill them,” he answered. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink and then go back to their master.” 23 So he prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. So the bands from Aram stopped raiding Israel’s territory. 24 Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria. 25 There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels[e] of silver, and a quarter of a cab[f] of seed pods[g] for five shekels.[h] 26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!” 27 The king replied, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?” 28 Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’ 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.” 30 When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth on his body. 31 He said, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!” 32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Don’t you see how this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?” 33 While he was still talking to them, the messenger came down to him. The king said, “This disaster is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?” 36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence. 44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.” 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” 50 When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. 51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. 52 Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. 53 And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God. 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2 राजा 6 Nepali Bible: Easy-to-Read Version (ERV-NE) एलीशा र बञ्चरो 6 अगमवक्ताहरूको दलले एलीशालाई भने, “हामी त्यस ठाउँमा बसिरहेका छौं। तर हाम्रो निम्ति 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। अराम इस्राएललाई फसाउने चेष्टा गर्छ 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, शहरलाई 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, पहाड आगोको घोडा अनि रथहरूले घेरिएको थियो। तिनीहरू सबै एलीशाको वारिपरि थिए। 18 ती आगोका घोडा र रथहरू एलीशा छेऊ आए। एलीशाले परमप्रभुसँग 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 अनुशरण 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, “अँहँ, 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। डरलाग्दो अनिकालले सामरियालाई कष्ट दिन्छ 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 ठूला-बड़ा सित कुरा गरिरहेका थिए, दूत उनीसमक्ष आयो। यस्तो सन्देश थियोः “यो सङ्कट परमप्रभुबाट आएको हो! म किन परमप्रभुलाई धेरै बेरसम्म पर्खिनु?”