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Os filhos dos profetas disseram a Eliseu: Eis que o lugar em que habitamos diante da tua face é estreito demais para nós. 
Vamos até o Jordão, tomemos de lá cada um de nós uma viga, e edifiquemos ali um lugar em que habitemos. Respondeu ele: Ide. 
Disse um: Digna-te de ir com os teus servos. Ele tornou: Eu irei. 
Assim foi com eles. Chegados ao Jordão, cortavam madeiras. 
Quando um cortava a sua viga, caiu na água o ferro do machado; ele gritou e disse: Ai, meu senhor! porque era emprestado. 
Perguntou o homem de Deus: Onde caiu? Ele lhe mostrou o lugar. Então Eliseu cortou um pau, o lançou ali e fez nadar o ferro. 
Disse: Levanta-o. Estendeu ele a mão, e o tomou. 
Ora o rei da Síria fazia guerra a Israel; teve conselho com os seus servos, dizendo: Em tal e tal lugar estará o meu acampamento. 
Mandou o homem de Deus dizer ao rei de Israel: Guarda-te, não passes por tal e tal lugar, porque os siros estão descendo ali. 
O rei de Israel enviou ao lugar que o homem de Deus lhe dissera, e de que o avisara; assim se salvou ali não uma nem duas vezes. 
Turbou-se o coração do rei da Síria por causa disso, chamou os seus servos e disse-lhes: Não me mostrareis qual de nós é pelo rei de Israel? 
Respondeu um dos seus servos: Não é assim, ó rei meu senhor; mas o profeta Eliseu, que está em Israel, refere ao rei de Israel as palavras que falas na tua câmara de dormir. 
Ele disse: Ide e vede onde está, para que eu envie e faça trazê-lo. Foi-lhe dito: Eis que ele está em Dotã. 
Portanto mandou para lá cavalos e carros e uma tropa numerosa; chegaram de noite e cercaram a cidade. 
Tendo-se levantado cedo o servo do homem de Deus, e saído para fora, eis que uma tropa de cavalos e carros estava ao redor da cidade. Disse-lhe o seu servo: Ai, meu senhor! como havemos de fazer? 
Respondeu ele: Não tenhas medo; pois mais são os que estão conosco do que os que estão com eles. 
Orou Eliseu e disse: Jeová, abre os seus olhos, para que veja. Abriu Jeová os olhos do moço, que viu o monte cheio de cavalos e carros de fogo ao redor de Eliseu. 
Ao descerem os siros a ele, orou Eliseu a Jeová e disse: Fere de cegueira a essa gente. Feriu-a de cegueira conforme a palavra de Eliseu. 
Eliseu disse-lhe: Este não é o caminho, nem esta a cidade; segui-me, e guiar-vos-ei ao homem que buscais. Guiou-os a Samaria. 
Tendo eles entrado em Samaria, disse Eliseu: Abre, Jeová, os olhos destes homens para que vejam. Abriu-lhes Jeová os olhos, e viram; e eis que estavam no meio de Samaria. 
Quando o rei de Israel os viu, perguntou a Eliseu: Feri-los-ei, feri-los-ei, meu pai? 
Respondeu ele: Não os ferirás. Acaso feririas tu os que fazes cativos com a tua espada e com o teu arco? manda por-lhes diante pão e água, para que comam e bebam, e tornem ao seu amo. 
Preparou-se-lhes uma grande quantidade de alimentos; tendo eles comido e bebido, despediu-os, e eles voltaram para o seu amo. As tropas da Síria não entraram mais na terra de Israel. 
Depois disto ajuntou Ben-Hadade, rei da Síria, todo o seu exército, e subiu e sitiou a Samaria. 
Houve uma grande fome em Samaria; eis que a sitiaram, até que se vendeu uma cabeça de jumento por oitenta siclos de prata, e a quarta parte dum cabe de esterco de pombas por cinco siclos de prata. 
Passando o rei de Israel sobre o muro, gritou-lhe uma mulher, dizendo: Acode-me, ó rei meu senhor. 
Ele disse: Se Jeová não te acudir, donde te acudirei eu? da eira ou do lagar? 
O rei perguntou-lhe: Que é o que tens? Respondeu ela: Esta mulher me disse: Dá teu filho, para o comermos hoje, e amanhã comeremos meu filho. 
Cozemos meu filho, e o comemos; e ao outro dia lhe disse eu: Dá teu filho para o comermos; e ela escondeu seu filho. 
Tendo o rei ouvido as palavras da mulher, rasgou os seus vestidos (ora ele ia passando sobre o muro); o povo olhou e viu que o rei tinha sacos sobre a sua carne. 
Então ele disse: Assim me faça Deus e ainda mais, se a cabeça de Eliseu, filho de Safate, lhe ficar hoje sobre os ombros. 
Eliseu, porém, estava sentado em sua casa, juntamente com os anciãos. Enviou o rei um dos seus assistentes; mas antes que o mensageiro chegasse a Eliseu, disse este aos anciãos: Vedes como este filho dum homicida mandou tirar-me a cabeça? Olhai quando vier o mensageiro, fechai a porta, e empurrai-o para fora com a porta. Porventura não vem após ele o ruído dos pés do seu amo? 
Quando Eliseu ainda estava falando com eles, eis que desceu o mensageiro a ter com ele. Disse ele: Eis que este mal vem de Jeová; porque me deteria eu mais por causa dele? 

Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, There is not room enough for us in the place where we are living under your care; 
So let us go to Jordan, and let everyone get to work cutting boards, and we will make a living-place for ourselves there. And he said to them, Go, then. 
And one of them said, Be pleased to go with your servants. And he said, I will go. 
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they got to work cutting down trees. 
But one of them, while cutting a board, let the head of his axe go into the water; and he gave a cry, and said, This is a bad business, my master, for it is another's. 
And the man of God said, Where did it go in? and when he saw the place where it had gone into the water, cutting a stick, he put it into the water, and the iron came up to the top of the water. 
Then he said, Take it up. So he put out his hand and took it. 
At that time the king of Aram was making war against Israel; and he had a meeting with the chiefs of his army and said, I will be waiting in secret in some named place. 
And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Take care to keep away from that place, for the Aramaeans are waiting there in secret. 
So the king of Israel sent to the place where the man of God had said there was danger, and kept clear of it more than once. 
And at this, the mind of the king of Aram was greatly troubled, and he sent for his servants and said to them, Will you not make clear to me which of us is helping the king of Israel? 
And one of them said, Not one of us, my lord king; but Elisha, the prophet in Israel, gives the king of Israel news of the words you say even in your bedroom. 
Then he said, Go and see where he is, so that I may send and get him. And news came to him that he was in Dothan. 
So he sent there horses and carriages and a great army; and they came by night, circling the town. 
Now the servant of the man of God, having got up early and gone out, saw an army with horses and carriages of war all round the town. And the servant said to him, O my master, what are we to do? 
And he said in answer, Have no fear; those who are with us are more than those who are with them. 
Then Elisha made a prayer to the Lord, saying, Lord, let his eyes be open so that he may see. And the Lord made the young man's eyes open; and he saw that all the mountain was full of horses and carriages of fire round Elisha. 
Now when the Aramaeans came down to Elisha, he made a prayer to the Lord saying, Lord, make this people blind. And he made them blind at Elisha's request. 
And Elisha said to them, This is not the way, and this is not the town: come after me so that I may take you to the man you are searching for. And he took them to Samaria. 
And when they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, Lord, let the eyes of these men be open so that they may see. And the Lord made their eyes open, and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria. 
And the king of Israel, when he saw them, said to Elisha, My father, am I to put them to the sword? 
But he said in answer, You are not to put them to death; have you any right to put to death those whom you have not taken prisoner with your sword and your bow? put bread and water before them, so that they may have food and drink and go to their master. 
So he made ready a great feast for them, and when they had had food and drink, he sent them away and they went back to their master. And no more bands of Aramaeans came into the land of Israel. 
Now after this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got together all his army and went up to make an attack on Samaria, shutting the town in on all sides with his forces. 
And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver. 
And when the king of Israel was going by on the wall, a woman came crying out to him, and said, Help! my lord king. 
And he said, If the Lord does not give you help, where am I to get help for you? from the grain-floor or the grape-crusher? 
And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow. 
So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place. 
Then the king, hearing what the woman said, took his robes in his hands, violently parting them; and, while he was walking on the wall, the people, looking, saw that under his robe he had haircloth on his flesh. 
Then he said, May God's punishment come on me if Elisha, the son of Shaphat, keeps his head on his body after this day. 
But Elisha was in his house, and the responsible men were seated there with him; and before the king got there, Elisha said to those who were with him, Do you see how this cruel and violent man has sent to take away my life? 
While he was still talking to them, the king came down and said, This evil is from the Lord; why am I to go on waiting any longer for the Lord? 

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