3:21 モアブの人々は皆、王たちが攻め上って来たことを聞いた。剣を帯びる年齢に達した者がすべて召集され、国境の守備に就いた。

3:22 彼らが翌朝早く起きると、太陽が水面を照らしていた。モアブの人々は目の前に血のように赤い水を見た。

3:23 彼らは、「これは血だ。王たちは自分たちどうしで争い、討ち合ったにちがいない。モアブよ、今こそ奪うときだ」と言い、

3:24 イスラエルの陣営に突入したが、イスラエルは立ち上がってモアブを迎え撃ち、モアブは敗走した。イスラエルは彼らに襲いかかり、モアブを討った。

3:25 彼らは町を破壊し、すべての肥沃な耕地を皆がそれぞれ投げ込んだ石で満たし、すべての泉をふさぎ、すべての有用な木を切り倒した。残ったのは、キル・ハレセトの石だけであった。それも投石器を持つ者に囲まれ、攻撃された。

3:26 モアブの王は戦いが自分の力の及ばないものになってきたのを見て、剣を携えた兵七百人を引き連れ、エドムの王に向かって突進しようとしたが、果たせなかった。

3:27 そこで彼は、自分に代わって王となるはずの長男を連れて来て、城壁の上で焼き尽くすいけにえとしてささげた。イスラエルに対して激しい怒りが起こり、イスラエルはそこを引き揚げて自分の国に帰った。

新共同 Ⅱ列 4:1-7

4:1 預言者の仲間の妻の一人がエリシャに助けを求めて叫んだ。「あなたの僕であるわたしの夫が死んでしまいました。ご存じのようにあなたの僕は主を畏れ敬う人でした。ところが債権者が来てわたしの子供二人を連れ去り、奴隷にしようとしています。」

4:2 エリシャが、「何をしてあげられるだろうか。あなたの家に何があるのか言いなさい」と促すと、彼女は、「油の壺一つのほか、はしための家には何もありません」と答えた。

4:3 彼は言った。「外に行って近所の人々皆から器を借りて来なさい。空の器をできるだけたくさん借りて来なさい。

4:4 家に帰ったら、戸を閉めて子供たちと一緒に閉じこもり、その器のすべてに油を注ぎなさい。いっぱいになったものは脇に置くのです。」

4:5 彼女はエリシャのもとから出て行くと、戸を閉めて子供たちと一緒に閉じこもり、子供たちが器を持って来ると、それに油を注いだ。

4:6 器がどれもいっぱいになると、彼女は、「もっと器を持っておいで」と子供に言ったが、「器はもうない」と子供が答えた。油は止まった。

4:7 彼女が神の人のもとに行ってそのことを知らせると、彼は言った。「その油を売りに行き、負債を払いなさい。あなたと子供たちはその残りで生活していくことができる。」

ＴＥＶ Ⅱ列 3:21-27

3:21 When the Moabites heard that the three kings had come to attack them, all the men who could bear arms, from the oldest to the youngest, were called out and stationed at the border.

3:22 When they got up the following morning, the sun was shining on the water, making it look as red as blood.

3:23 "It's blood!" they exclaimed. "The three enemy armies must have fought and killed each other! Let's go and loot their camp!"

3:24 But when they reached the camp, the Israelites attacked them and drove them back. The Israelites kept up the pursuit, slaughtering the Moabites

3:25 and destroying their cities. As they passed by a fertile field, every Israelite would throw a stone on it until finally all the fields were covered; they also stopped up the springs and cut down the fruit trees. At last only the capital city of Kir Heres was left, and the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

3:26 When the king of Moab realized that he was losing the battle, he took seven hundred swordsmen with him and tried to force his way through the enemy lines and escape to the king of Syria, but he failed.

3:27 So he took his oldest son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him on the city wall as a sacrifice to the god of Moab. The Israelites were terrified and so they drew back from the city and returned to their own country.

ＴＥＶ Ⅱ列 4:1-7

4:1 The widow of a member of a group of prophets went to Elisha and said, "Sir, my husband has died! As you know, he was a God-fearing man, but now a man he owed money to has come to take away my two sons as slaves in payment for my husband's debt."

4:2 "What shall I do for you?" he asked. "Tell me, what do you have at home?" /"Nothing at all, except a small jar of olive oil," she answered.

4:3 "Go to your neighbors and borrow as many empty jars as you can," Elisha told her.

4:4 "Then you and your sons go into the house, close the door, and start pouring oil into the jars. Set each one aside as soon as it is full."

4:5 So the woman went into her house with her sons, closed the door, took the small jar of olive oil, and poured oil into the jars as her sons brought them to her.

4:6 When they had filled all the jars, she asked if there were any more. "That was the last one," one of her sons answered. And the olive oil stopped flowing.

4:7 She went back to Elisha, the prophet, who said to her, "Sell the olive oil and pay all your debts, and there will be enough money left over for you and your sons to live on."