¹In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.

¹Negore ramakumi maviri namanomwe raJerobhoamu mambo waIsiraeri, Azaria mwanakomana waAmazia mambo waJudha wakatanga kubata ushe.

²Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.

²wakange anamakore ane gumi namatanhatu pakutanga kwake kubata ushe, akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore ana makumi mashanu namaviri; zita ramai vake rakanga riri Jekoria weJerusaremu.

³And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;

³Akaita zvakarurama pamberi paJehovha, sezvakaita baba vake Amazia pazvose.

⁴Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

⁴Kunyange zvakadaro, matunhu akakwirira haana kubviswa, vanhu vakaramba vachibayira nokupisa zvinonhuhwira pamatunhu akakwirira.

⁵And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.

⁵Jehovha akarova mambo, akava namaperembudzi kusvikira zuva rokufa kwake, akagara ari oga muimba. Jotamu mwanakomana wamambo akava mutariri weimba, akatongawo mhosva dzavanhu venyika.

⁶And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

⁶Zvino mamwe mabasa aAzaria, nezvose zvaakaita, hazvina kunyorwa here mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aJudha?

⁷So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

⁷Azaria akavata namadzibaba ake, vakamuviga kuna madzibaba ake muguta raDhavhidhi; Jotamu mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.

⁸In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.

⁸Negore ramakumi matatu namasere raAzaria mambo waJudha, Zekariya mwanakomana waJerobhoamu wakava mambo waIsiraeri paSamaria mwedzi mitanhatu.

⁹And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

⁹Akaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha, sezvakaita madzibaba ake; haana kutsauka pazvivi zvaJerobhoamu mwanakomana waNebhati, zvaakatadzisa Isiraeri nazvo.

¹⁰And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

¹⁰Sharumi mwanakomana waJabheshi akamumukira, akamubaya pamberi pavanhu, akamuuraya, iye akamutevera paushe.

¹¹And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

¹¹Zvino mamwe mabasa aZekariya, tarirai akanyorwa mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aIsiraeri.

¹²This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.

¹²Ndiro shoko raJehovha raakataura kuna Jehu, achiti, Vanakomana vako vachagara pachigaro choushe hwaIsiraeri kusvikira parudzi rwechina. Zvikaitwa saizvozvo.

¹³Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.

¹³Sharumi mwanakomana waJabheshi wakatanga kubata ushe negore ramakumi matatu namapfumbamwe raUziya mambo waJudha; akabata ushe paSamaria mwedzi mumwe.

¹⁴For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

¹⁴Zvino Menahemi mwanakomana waGadhi akabva Tiriza, akasvika Samaria, akabaya Sharumi mwanakomana waJabheshi paSamaria, akamuuraya, akamutevera paushe.

¹⁵And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

¹⁵Zvino mamwe mabasa aSharumi, nokumukira kwake, tarirai zvakanyorwa mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzibaba aIsiraeri.

¹⁶Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

¹⁶Zvino Menahemi akaparadza Tifisa, navose vakanga vari mukati maro, nenyika yaro, kubva paTiriza; akariparadza, nekuti vakaramba kumuzarurira; akatumbura vakadzi vose vakanga vane mimba, vaiva mukati maro.

¹⁷In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.

¹⁷Negore ramakumi matatu namapfumbamwe raAzaria mambo waJudha, Menahemi mwanakomana waGadhi, wakatanga kubata ushe hwaIsiraeri, akaubata makore ane gumi paSamaria.

¹⁸And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

¹⁸Akaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha; mazuva ake ose haana kutsauka pazvivi zvaJerobhoamu mwanakomana waNebhati, zvaakatadzisa Isiraeri nazvo.

¹⁹And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

¹⁹Zvino Puri mambo weAsiria akauya kuzorwa nenyika; Menahemi akapa Puri matarenda ane chiuru chimwe chesirivha, kuti amubatsire kusimbisa ushe hwake.

²⁰And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.

²⁰Menahemi akateresa Isiraeri, mumwe nomumwe wakange ane simba, akafuma, akabudisa mashekeri ana makumi mashanu esirivha, kuti zvipiwe mambo weAsiria; naizvozvo mambo weAsiria akadzokera hake, akasagara panyika.

²¹And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

²¹Zvino mamwe mabasa aMenahemi, nezvose zvaakaita, hazvina kunyorwa here mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aIsiraeri?

²²And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

²²Menahemi akavata namadzibaba ake, Pekahia mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.

²³In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.

²³Negore ramakumi mashanu raAzaria mambo weJudha, Pekahia mwanakomana waMenehemi wakatanga kubata ushe hwaIsiraeri paSamaria, akaubata makore maviri.

²⁴And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

²⁴Akaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha; haana kutsauka pazvivi zvaJerobhoamu mwanakomana waNebhati, zvaakatadzisa Isiraeri nazvo.

²⁵But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.

²⁵Zvino Peka mwanakomana waRemaria, mukuru wake wehondo akamumukira, akamuuraya paSamaria, munhare yeimba yamambo, iye naArigobhi naArie navanhu vana makumi mashanu vaGiriyadhi vaakanga anavo; akamuuraya, akamutevera paushe.

²⁶And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

²⁶Zvino mamwe mabasa aPekahia, nezvose zvaakaita, tarirai zvakanyorwa mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aIsiraeri.

²⁷In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.

²⁷Negore ramakumi mashanu namaviri raAzaria mambo waJudha, Peka, mwanakomana waRemaria, akatanga kubata ushe hwaIsiraeri paSamaria, akaubata makore makumi maviri.

²⁸And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

²⁸Akaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha; haana kutsauka pazvivi zvaJerobhoamu mwanakomana waNebhati, zvaakatadzisa Isiraeri nazvo.

²⁹In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

²⁹Namazuva aPeka mambo waIsiraeri, Tigiratipireseri mambo weAsiria akasvika, akakunda Ijoni, neAbheribhetimaaka, neJanowa, neKadheshi, neHazori, neGiriyadhi, neGarirea, iyo nyika yose yeNafutari; akavatapa, akaenda navo Asiria.

³⁰And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

³⁰Zvino Hoshea mwanakomana waEra akaita ndanga pamusoro paPeka mwanakomana waRemaria, akamubaya, akamuuraya, ndokumutevera paushe, negore ramakumi maviri raJotamu mwanakomana waUziya.

³¹And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

³¹Zvino mamwe mabasa aPeka, nezvose zvaakaita, tarirai zvakanyorwa mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo elsiraeri.

³²In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

³²Negore rechipiri raPeka mwanakomana waRemaria mambo waIsiraeri, Jotamu mwanakomana waUziya mambo waJudha, wakatanga kubata ushe.

³³Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

³³wakange asvika makore ana makumi maviri namashanu pakutanga kwake kubata ushe; akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore ane gumi namatanhatu; zita ramai vake rakanga riri Jerusha mukunda waZadhoki.

³⁴And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

³⁴Akaita zvakarurama pamberi paJehovha, akaita zvose zvakaitwa nababa vake Uziya.

³⁵Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

³⁵Kunyange zvakadaro matunhu akakwirira haana kubviswa; vanhu vakaramba vachibayira nokupisa zvinonhuhwira pamatunhu akakwirira. Ndiye wakavaka suwo rokumusoro reimba yaJehovha.

³⁶Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

³⁶Zvino mamwe mabasa aJotamu, nezvose zvaakaita, hazvina kunyorwa here mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aJudha?

³⁷In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

³⁷Namazuva iwayo Jehovha akatanga kutuma Rezini mambo weSiria naPeka mwanakomana waRemaria kuzorwa naJudha.

³⁸And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

³⁸Jotamu akavata namadzibaba ake, akavigwa kuna madzibaba ake muguta rababa vake Dhavhidhi; Ahazi mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.