¹Huchi in, Zerui tapa Joab in kumpipa lungsim Absalom tungah a teng chih a na thei a.

¹Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

²Huchi in Joab in Tekia khua ah mi a sawl a, huailai a numei pil khat a va pisak a, a kiang ah, Lusun bang in kibawl unla, lusun puan silh inla, sathau leng kinilhlou in numei sawtpi misi sun bang in om in:

²Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

³Huan, kumpipa kiang ah hoh inla a kiang ah hichi bang in thu va gen in aw, a chi a. Huchi in Joab in thute tuh a kam ah a muam a.

³Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.

⁴Huan, Tekoa khua a numei in kumpipa kiang a thu a gen sin in mai a lei si in a khupboh a, chibai a buk a, TOUPA aw, hon huh in, a chi a.

⁴When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

⁵Huan, kumpipa'n a kiang ah, Bangchidan ahia? a chi a. Huan, aman a dawng a, Meithai petmah ka hi a, ka pasal a sita.

⁵The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

⁶Huan, na sikhanu in tapa nih a nei a, a nih un lou ah a kisual ua, kuamah phelh ding lah a omkei ua, a khatpen in a dang a sata a, a hihlumta a.

⁶Your handmaid had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

⁷Huan, ngai in, a inkuan tengteng in na sikhanu a doukhawm ua, A unaupa thatpa a unaupa thah ziak a i thah tei theihna ding in hon pia in, huchi in gouluah ding pa leng ka hihmang pah ngal ding uh, a chi a: huchi bang in ka mei am omlai a mitsak ding ua, ka pasal min neilou leh leitung a suan himhim neilou a om maisin ahi, a chi a.

⁷Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”

⁸Huan, kumpipa'n numei kiang ah, Na in ah pai inla, na tungtang thu ah thu ka pe mai ding, a chi a.

⁸The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”

⁹Huan, Tekoa khua a numei in kumpipa kiang ah, TOUPA aw, ka pu, thulimlouhna moh ka tung leh ka pa inkote tungah ke mai hen: huan, kumpipa leh laltutphah in moh pokei hen, a chi a.

⁹The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.”

¹⁰Huan, kumpipa'n, Kuapeuh na tung a banghiam gen peuhmah ka kiang ah honpi inla, a honkhoih nawn hetkei ding uh, a chi a.

¹⁰The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more.”

¹¹Huan, aman, Sisan suahmite tung a phulamite'n hihmang nawnlou ding in kumpipa'n TOUPA na Pathian thei gige hen aw, huchilou in zaw ka tapa a hih mangkha ding uh, a chi a. Huan, aman, TOUPA hinna lou in ka gen hi, na tapa a samzang khat leng lei ah kekei ding, a chi a.

¹¹Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

¹²Huchi in numei in, Na sikhanu in toupa ka pu kiang ah thu kam khatkia kon gen nawn peuhmah ding aw, a chi a. Huan, aman, Gen ve, a chi a.

¹²Then the woman said, “Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”

¹³Huan, numei in, A hihleh bang jiakin ahia Pathian mite doudal a hichi bang a hihtum na hia? hiai thu a kipan in kumpipa moh in a kilang ahi, kumpipa'n a mi, taimangpa a pi kik nawnlouh jiakin.

¹³The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

¹⁴Ka si ngeingei ding ua, huan, tuisik lei a bosa a luahnawn theihlouh bang ka hi uhi: Pathian in hinna a la mang a hikei a, taimangpa amah lak a mituam a hihlouhna ding lunggel ahi zaw hi.

¹⁴For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

¹⁵Huchi in toupa ka pu kiang ahiai thu gen ding a ka hong in leng mi ka kihtak ziak ahi: huan, na sikhanu in, kumpipa kiang ah ka gen phot ding a, kumpipa'n a sikhanu ngetna a lohchingsak kha mai deh.

¹⁵Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’

¹⁶Kumpipa'n kei leh ka tapa Pathian gouluahlou ding a hihman tummi lak a na sikhanu honkhe ding in a na ngaikhe ding ka chi a.

¹⁶For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

¹⁷Huchi in na sikhanu a ding in, toupa, ka pu thu lungmuan huai tak hi henla; a sia a pha nakhen ding in toupa ka pu lah Pathian angel bangmai ahi ngal a: Huan, TOUPA Pathian na kiang ah om hen ka chi ahi, a chi a.

¹⁷Then your handmaid said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”

¹⁸Huan, kumpipa'n a dawng a, numei kiang ah, Kon dot peuhmah bangmah hon im ken aw, a chi a. Huan, numei in, Toupa ka pu in gen leh a ke, a chi a.

¹⁸Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”

¹⁹Huan, kumpipa'n, Hiai thu himhim ah Joab in panna a nei hia? a chi a. Huan, numei in a dawng a, Toupa ka pu, na kha hinna lou in ka gen hi, toupa ka pu in a gensa kuamah in taklam ah hiam, veilam ah hiam a pel theikei ding ua: na sikha Joab in a hon sawl a, hiai thu tengteng na sikhanu a hon muam vek hi:

¹⁹The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

²⁰Thil omdan hihlamdang ding in hiai thil na sikha Joab in a hih ahi: huan, ka pu bel khovel a thil om tengteng thei thei in Pathian angel bang in a pil ahi, a chi a.

²⁰to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

²¹Huan, kumpipa'n Joab kiang ah, Ngai in, ka hih samta hi, huaiziak in pai inla, tangval Absalom va pi nawn dole, a chi a.

²¹The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.”

²²Huan, Joab bel mai a lei si in a khupboh a, chibai a buk a, kumpipa a vualzawl a: huan, Joab in, Toupa ka kumpipa aw, toupa'n a sikha ngetna a lohchinsak ziak in tuni in na sikha in na mit ka tung chih ka natheita hi, a chi a.

²²Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”

²³Huchi in Joab a thou a, Gesur ah a hoh a, Absalom Jerusalem ah a pita hi.

²³So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

²⁴Huan, kumpipa'n, Amah in lam ah pai henla, ka mel hong mu dah leh, a chi a. Huchi in Absalom amah in lam ah a pai a, kumpipa mel a mutakei hi.

²⁴The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face.

²⁵Israel tengteng lak ah Absalom bang a melhoih a phat loh kuamah a omkei uh: a khe lek a kipan in a sip pha in gensiatna himhim a omkei hi.

²⁵Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

²⁶A sam a met in (kum kivei teng in a met sak a, a sam lah a giktheih ziak in a met sek hi. ) a sam a buk zel a, kumpipa bukdan in sekel nih a ching sek hi.

²⁶When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.

²⁷Huan, Absalom in tapa thum leh tanu khat a nei a, a min Tamar ahi a, mel hoihtak ahi.

²⁷To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.

²⁸Huchi in Absalom kum nih hilhial Jerusalem ah a om a; himahleh kumpipa mel himhim a mukei hi.

²⁸Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he didn’t see the king’s face.

²⁹Huchi in Absalom in kumpipa kiang a sawl ding in Joab a thukhak a; himahleh a hoh nuamkei; huan, a thukhak nawn a, himahleh a hoh nuamsamkei hi.

²⁹Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

³⁰Huchi in a sikhate kiang ah, I aw, Joab lou bel kei lou kiang ahi a, barli buh a nei a, va hal un, a chi a. Huchi in Absalom sikhate'n lou a vahalta uh.

³⁰Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

³¹Huchi in Joab a thou a, Absalom kiang ah a in ah a hoh a, a Bangding a na sikhate'n ka lou hal ahi ua? A chi a.

³¹Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”

³²Huan, Absalom in Joab a dawng a, Ngai dih, Bangdia Gesur a kipan a hong ka hia? Huailai ah om thek leng kei dia hoih zo mah ding, chi a kumpipa kiang a sawl dia hon thukhak ing a; huaiziak in kumpipa mel hon musak in; huan, thu ginatlouhna nei ka hih leh hon hihlum mai leh a ke, a chi a.Huchi in Joab kumpipa kiang ah a hoh a, a hilh a; huan, Absalom a sam a, kumpipa kiang ah a hoh a, huan kumpipa ma ah a mai a lei si in a khupboh a; huan, kumpipa'n Absalom a tawp hi.

³²Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”’”

³³Huchi in Joab kumpipa kiang ah a hoh a, a hilh a; huan, Absalom a sam a, kumpipa kiang ah a hoh a, huan kumpipa ma ah a mai a lei si in a khupboh a; huan, kumpipa'n Absalom a tawp hi.

³³So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.