¹In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

¹Negore regumi namanomwe raPeka mwanakomana waRemaria, Ahazi mwanakomana waJotamu mambo waJudha wakatanga kubata ushe.

²Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

²Ahazi akatanga kubata ushe ava namakore makumi maviri; akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore ane gumi namatanhatu. Asi haana kuita zvakarurama pamberi paJehovha Mwari wake, sababa vake Dhavhidhi.

³But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

³nekuti wakafamba nenzira yamadzibaba aIsiraeri, akapinzawo mwanakomana wake mumoto netsika dzezvinonyangadza zvavahedheni, vakanga vadzingwa naJehovha pamberi pavana vaIsiraeri.

⁴And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

⁴Akabayira nokupisa zvinonhuhwira napasi pemiti yose mitema.

⁵Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

⁵Ipapo Rezini mambo weSiria, naPeka mwanakomana waRemaria mambo wIsiraeri, vakasvika Jerusaremu kuzorwa naye; vakakomba Ahazi, asi vakanga vasingagoni kumukunda.

⁶At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.

⁶Nenguva iyo Rezini mambo weSiria akadzoserazve Siria Erati, akadzinga vaJudha paErati; vakaenda Erati, vakagarapo kusvikira nhasi.

⁷So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.

⁷Zvino Ahazi akatuma nhume kuna Tigiratipireseri mambo weAsiria, akati, Ndiri muranda wenyu nomwanakomana wenyu; uyai mundirwire muruoko rwamambo weSiria, nomuruoko rwamambo waIsiraeri, vanondimukira.

⁸And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.

⁸Ipapo Ahazi akatora sirivha nendarama zvakawanikwa mumba maJehovha, napafuma yeimba yamambo, akazvituma kuna mambo weAsiria, chive chipo.

⁹And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

⁹Mambo weAsiria akamunzwa, mambo weAsiria akandorwa neDhamasiko, akarikunda, akatapa vanhu, akavaisa Kiri, akauraya Rezini.

¹⁰And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.

¹⁰Zvino mambo Ahazi akaenda Dhamasiko kundosangana naTigiratipireseri mambo weAsiria, akaona aritari yakanga iri paDhamasiko; mambo Ahazi akatuma mufananidzo wearitari kuna Uriya mupristi, nomuvakirwo wayo, nomuitirwe wayo wose.

¹¹And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.

¹¹mupristi Uriya akavaka aritari yakafanana nezvose zvakanga zvatumwa namambo Ahazi achiri Dhamasiko, mupristi Uriya akaiita saizvozvo mambo Ahazi achigere kudzoka Dhamasiko.

¹²And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

¹²Zvino mambo wakati adzoka Dhamasiko, mambo akaona aritari, mambo akaswedera paaritari, kuzobayira pamusoro payo.

¹³And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.

¹³Akapisira pamusoro pearitari chipiriso chake chinopiswa, nechipiriso chake choupfu, akadururapo chipiriso chake chinodururwa, akasasirapo ropa rezvipiriso zvake zvokuyananisa.

¹⁴And he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.

¹⁴Uye aritari yendarira, yaiva pamberi paJehovha, wakaibvisa pamukova weimba, pakati pearitari yake neimba yaJehovha, akaiisa kurutivi rwokumusoro rwearitari yake.

¹⁵And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to enquire by.

¹⁵Zvino mambo Ahazi akaraira mupristi Uriya, akati, Chipisira chipiriso choupfu chamangwanani paaritari huru, nechipiriso chamadekwana, nechipiriso chamambo chinopiswa, nechipiriso chake choupfu, nechipiriso chavanhu vose venyika, nechipiriso chavo choupfu, nezvipiriso zvavo zvinodururwa; uye usasire pamusoro payo, neropa rose rechipiriso chinopiswa, neropa rose rezvibayiro; asi aritari yendarira ndiyo yandichabvunza

¹⁶Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

¹⁶Naizvozvo mupristi Uriya akaita zvose zvaakanga arairwa namambo Ahazi.

¹⁷And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon the pavement of stones.

¹⁷Mambo Ahazi akagura ukomba bwezvingoro, akabvisa mudziyo wokushamba pamusoro pazvo, akabvisawo dziva pamusoro penzombe dzendarira dzakanga dziri pasi paro, akariisa pachigadziko chamabwe.

¹⁸And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.

¹⁸Nenzira, yaiva nedenga, yakaitirwa imba yezororo, yavakanga vavaka temberi, nomukova wamambo nechokunze, wakazvishandura mukati metemberi yaJehovha, nokuda kwamambo weAsiria.

¹⁹Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

¹⁹Zvino mamwe mabasa aAhazi aakaita, hazvina kunyorwa here mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzibaba aJudha?

²⁰And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

²⁰Ahazi akavata namadzibaba ake, akavigwa muguta raDhavhidhi, Hezekia mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.