6:24 此後，亞蘭王便‧哈達聚集他的全軍，上來圍困撒馬利亞。
6:25 於是撒馬利亞被圍困，有饑荒，甚至一個驢頭值銀八十舍客勒，二升鴿子糞值銀五舍客勒。
6:26 一日，以色列王在城上經過，有一個婦人向他呼叫說：「我主，我王啊！求你幫助。」
6:27 王說：「耶和華不幫助你，我從何處幫助你？是從禾場，是從酒醡呢？」
6:28 王問婦人說：「你有甚麼苦處？」她回答說：「這婦人對我說：『將你的兒子取來，我們今日可以吃，明日可以吃我的兒子。』
6:29 我們就煮了我的兒子吃了。次日我對她說：『要將你的兒子取來，我們可以吃。』她卻將她的兒子藏起來了。」
6:30 王聽見婦人的話，就撕裂衣服；（王在城上經過）百姓看見王貼身穿著麻衣。
6:31 王說：「我今日若容沙法的兒子以利沙的頭仍在他項上，願上帝重重地降罰與我！」
6:32 那時，以利沙正坐在家中，長老也與他同坐。王打發一個伺候他的人去；他還沒有到，以利沙對長老說：「你們看這兇手之子，打發人來斬我的頭；你們看著使者來到，就關上門，用門將他推出去。在他後頭不是有他主人腳步的響聲嗎？」
6:33 正說話的時候，使者來到，王也到了，說：「這災禍是從耶和華那裡來的，我何必再仰望耶和華呢？」
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[a] of silver, and a quarter of a cab[b] of seed pods[c] for five shekels.[d]
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?”
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許多人面對苦難時，常常把不滿歸到上帝身上，卻沒有去真正檢討原因。正如以色列王約蘭，在亞蘭王便‧哈達聚集他的全軍上來圍困撒馬利亞的時候，使得撒馬利亞有饑荒。竟然不去和亞蘭王征戰，反而來怪上帝並且要殺害先知以利沙！
更讓人難過的是，他竟然說：「這災禍是從耶和華那裡來的，我何必再仰望耶和華呢？」王這樣的表現，讓我們感受到：不敬畏耶和華的人，真的是沒有智慧！雖然貴為君王，也是讓人覺得他真的與他的身分不對稱。
求主幫助我們，讓我們不要在苦難中亂了方寸，說了得罪上帝的話，而破壞了與上帝之間的關係！我們在苦難中，更是要仰望上帝、依靠上帝，而不是埋怨上帝！如此，我們才能在上帝的引導與保守下走過苦難的日子，享受真正的平安！
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