Mashi 4, 2024

Second Book of Kings 5: 1- 15

5:1	UNahamani, umholi webutho lenkosi yaseSiriya, wayengumuntu omkhulu ohloniphekayo enkosini yakhe. Ngoba ngaye uJehova walinika iSiriya insindiso. Futhi wayeyindoda enamandla futhi ecebile, kodwa onochoko.
5:2	Manje kwase kuphume abaphangi eSiriya, futhi babebathumbile, ezweni lakwa-Israyeli, intombazanyana. Futhi wayesebenzela umkaNahamani.
5:3	Wathi enkosikazini yakhe: “Sengathi inkosi yami ibikanye nomprofethi oseSamariya;. Impela, ngabe wayiphilisa ochokweni analo.
5:4	Manje, UNahamani wangena enkosini yakhe, wasembikela, ethi: “Intombazane yakwa-Israyeli yakhuluma kanjalo.”
5:5	Inkosi yase-Aramu yathi kuye, “Hamba, futhi ngizothumela incwadi enkosini yakwa-Israyeli. Kwathi esephumile, wayephethe amatalenta ayishumi esiliva, nezinhlamvu zegolide eziyizinkulungwane eziyisithupha, nezingubo eziyishumi ezinhle zokuphendulela.
5:6	Waletha incwadi enkosini yakwa-Israyeli, kula mazwi: “Uzoyithola nini le ncwadi, yazini ukuthi ngithumele inceku yami kini, UNahamani, ukuze umpholise ochokweni lwakhe.”
5:7	Kwathi inkosi yakwa-Israyeli isiyifundile incwadi, waklebhula izingubo zakhe, wathi: “NginguNkulunkulu, ukuze ngithathe noma ngiphe ukuphila, noma ukuze lo muntu athumele kimi ukwelapha umuntu ochokweni lwakhe? Qaphela futhi ubone ukuthi ufuna amathuba okulwa nami."
5:8	Futhi ngenkathi u-Elisha, umuntu kaNkulunkulu, wayezwile lokhu, ngokuqondile, ukuthi inkosi yakwa-Israyeli yayiklebhulile izingubo zayo, wathumela kuye, ethi: “Uklebhuleleni izingubo zakho?? Akeze kimi, wazi ukuthi kukhona umprofethi kwa-Israyeli.
5:9	Ngakho-ke, Wafika uNahamani namahhashi nezinqola zakhe, wema ngasemnyango wendlu ka-Elisha.
5:10	UElisha wasethuma isithunywa kuye, ethi, “Hamba, ugeze kasikhombisa eJordani, lenyama yenu izaphiliswa, khona niyakuba ngabahlambulukileyo.”
5:11	Nokuthukuthela, UNahamani wahamba, ethi: “Ngangicabanga ukuthi ubezongiphumela, futhi, emi, ngabe libize ibizo leNkosi, uNkulunkulu wakhe, nokuthi ubeyakuthinta indawo yochoko ngesandla sakhe, bangiphulukisa kanjalo.
5:12	Angithi oAbana noFarpar, imifula yaseDamaseku, engcono kunawo wonke amanzi akwa-Israyeli, ukuze ngigeze kuzo ngihlambuluke?" Kodwa ke, ngemva kokuba esejikile wahamba ethukuthele,
5:13	izinceku zakhe zasondela kuye, bathi kuye: “Ukube umprofethi ubenitshelile, ubaba, ukwenza into enkulu, ngokuqinisekile benifanele nikwenze. Kakhulu kangakanani, njengoba eseshilo kuwe: ‘Geza, njalo uzahlambuluka?' ”
5:14	Ngakho wehla wageza eJordani kasikhombisa, ngokwezwi lomuntu kaNkulunkulu. Nenyama yakhe yabuyiselwa, njengenyama yomntwana omncane. wasehlanjululwa.
5:15	Futhi ebuyela kumuntu kaNkulunkulu, nethimba lakhe lonke, wafika, wema phambi kwakhe, wathi: “Impela, Ngiyazi ukuthi akekho omunye uNkulunkulu, emhlabeni wonke, ngaphandle kwa-Israyeli. Ngakho ngiyakuncenga ukuthi wamukele isibusiso encekwini yakho.

Luka 4: 24- 30

4:24	Wabe esethi: “Amen ngithi kuwe, that no prophet is accepted in his own country.
4:25	Eqinisweni, ngithi kini, there were many widows in the days of Elijah in Israel, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when a great famine had occurred throughout the entire land.
4:26	And to none of these was Elijah sent, except to Zarephath of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
4:27	And there were many lepers in Israel under the prophet Elisha. And none of these was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian.”
4:28	And all those in the synagogue, ekuzweni lezizinto, were filled with anger.
4:29	And they rose up and drove him beyond the city. And they brought him all the way to the edge of the mount, upon which their city had been built, so that they might thrown him down violently.
4:30	But passing through their midst, wahamba.