¹Zvino Dhavhidhi navanhu vake vakati vachisvika paZikiragi nezuva retatu, vakawana kuti vaAmareki vakanga vandopambara kurutivi rwezasi, neZikiragiwo, vakakunda Zikiragi nokuripisa nomoto;

¹And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

²vakatapa vakadzi navose vakanga varimo, vaduku navakuru; vakanga vasina kuuraya munhu, asi vakavatapa, vakaenda havo.

²And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.

³Zvino Dhavhidhi navanhu vake vakati vachisvika paguta vakariwana rapiswa nomoto, navakadzi vavo, navanakomana vavo, navanasikana vavo vatapwa.

³So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

⁴Dhavhidhi navanhu vakanga vanaye vakachema kwazvo, kusvikira vasisina simba rokuchema.

⁴Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

⁵Navakadzi vaviri vaDhavhidhi vakanga vatapwawo, vanaAhinowamu muJezereeri naAbhigairi waiva mukadzi waNabhari muKarimeri.

⁵And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

⁶Dhavhidhi akatambudzika zvikuru, nekuti vanhu vakanga voda kumutaka namabwe, nekuti moyo yavanhu vose yakanga ine shungu, mumwe nomumwe pamusoro pavanakomana vake, navanasikana vake; asi Dhavhidhi wakatsvaka simba rake kuna Jehovha Mwari wake.

⁶And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

⁷Zvino Dhavhidhi akati kuna Abhiatari mupristi, mwanakomana waAhimereki, Douya hako pano neefodhi. Abhiatari akaenda neefodhi kuna Dhavhidhi.

⁷And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.

⁸Dhavhidhi akabvunza Jehovha, akati, Kana ndikatevera boka iro, ndingavabata here? Akamupindura akati, Tevera hako, nekuti uchavabata kwazvo, uye ucharwira zvose.

⁸And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

⁹Naizvozvo Dhavhidhi akaenda, iye navarume vana mazana matanhatu vaakanga anavo, vakasvika parukova Bhesori, pakasara vamwe vaakasiya.

⁹So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

¹⁰Asi Dhavhidhi wakateverera, iye navanhu vana mazana mana, nekuti vana mazana maviri vakanga vasara shure, nekuti vakanga vaneta kwazvo, vasingagoni kuyambuka rukova Bhesori.

¹⁰But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.

¹¹Vakawana muEgipita kusango, vakauya naye kuna Dhavhidhi, vakamupa zvokudya, akadya, vakamupawo mvura yokumwa;

¹¹And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;

¹²vakamupawo chimedu chebundu ramawonde namasumbu maviri amazambiringa akawomeswa; zvino wakati adya, mweya wake ukararamazve mukati make, nekuti wakange asina kudya zvokudya, kana kumwa mvura, mazuva matatu nousiku hutatu.

¹²And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

¹³Dhavhidhi akati kwaari, Uri waaniko? Unobvepiko? Iye akati, Ndiri jaya rakabva Egipita, muranda womunhu wavaAmareki; tenzi wangu wakandisiya, nekuti mazuva matatu akapfuura ndakarwara.

¹³And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

¹⁴Takanga tandopambara kurutivi rwezasi rwavaKereti, nokunyika yaJudha, nokurutivi rwezasi rwaKarebhi, tikapisawo Zikiragi nomoto.

¹⁴We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.

¹⁵Dhavhidhi akati kwaari, Ungandiburutsira kuboka iro here? Iye akati, Ndipikirei naMwari kuti hamungandiurayi, kana kundiisa mumaoko atenzi wangu. Ipapo ndingakuburusirai kuboka iro.

¹⁵And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.

¹⁶Zvino wakati amuburusirako vakavawana vakapararira pasi pose, vachidya nokumwa, nokutamba pakati pezvizhinji zvavakanga vapamba, zvavakanga vatora kunyika yavaFirisitia nokunyika yavaJudha.

¹⁶And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

¹⁷Dhavhidhi akarwa navo kubva parubvunzavaeni kusvikira madeko ezuva repiri; kwakanga kusina munhu wakapukunyuka, asi majaya ana mazana mana, akanga akatasva makamera, ndiwo akatiza.

¹⁷And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

¹⁸Dhavhidhi akarwira zvose zvakanga zvatorwa navaAmareki; Dhavhidhi akarwirawo vakadzi vake vaviri.

¹⁸And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

¹⁹Vakanga vasina kurashikirwa nechinhu, kunyange chiduku kana chikuru, kana vanakomana, kana vanasikana, kana nhumbi;kana chinhu chipi nechipi chavakanga vatora; Dhavhidhi wakazvidzosa zvose.

¹⁹And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.

²⁰Dhavhidhi akatorawo makwai nemombe dzose, vakazvitinha pamberi pezvimwe zvipfuwo, vakati, Ndizvo zvakapambwa naDhavhidhi.

²⁰And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

²¹Zvino Dhavhidhi akasvika kuvarume vana mazana maviri, vaya vakanga vasingagoni kutevera Dhavhidhi nokuneta kwavo, vavakanga vasiya kurukova Besori; ivo vakandosangana naDhavhidhi, nokusanganawo navanhu vakanga vanaye; zvino Dhavhidhi wakati aswedera kwavari, akavakwazisa.

²¹And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

²²Ipapo vanhu vose vakashata, navanhu vakaisvoipa, vakanga vaenda naDhavhidhi, vakapindura vakati, Zvavasina kuenda nesu, hatingavapi chinhu chimwe chezvakapambwa zvatakandorwira, asi mumwe nomumwe ngaapiwe mukadzi wake navana vake, vavaperekedze, vaende navo.

²²Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.

²³Ipapo Dhavhidhi akati, Hamungaiti kudaro, hama dzangu, nezvatakapiwa naJehovha, iye wakatichengeta, akaisa boka rakanga rauya kuzorwa nesu pamaoko edu.

²³Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

²⁴Ndiani ungakuteererai pashoko rakadai? Nekuti mugove wowakaenda kundorwa, uchafanana nomugove wowakasara panhumbi; migove yavo inofanira kufanana.

²⁴For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.

²⁵Zvino kubva pazuva iro iye akatema kuti uve mutemo nomurayiro kuvaIsiraeri kusvikira zuva ranhasi.

²⁵And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

²⁶Zvino Dhavhidhi wakati asvika Zikiragi, akatuma zvimwe zvakanga zvapambwa kuvakuru vavaJudha, idzo hama dzake akati, Hecho chipo chenyu chezvakapambwa kuvavengi vaJehovha;

²⁶And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;

²⁷kuna vakanga vari Bhetieri, nokuna vakanga vari Ramoti kurutivi rwezasi, nokuna vakanga vari Jatiri,

²⁷To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,

²⁸nokuna vakanga vari Aroeri, nokuna vakanga vari Sifimoti, nokuna vakanga vari Eshitemoa;

²⁸And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,

²⁹nokuna vakanga vari Rakari, nokuna vakanga vari kumaguta avaJerameeri, nokuna vakanga vari pamaguta avaKeni,

²⁹And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,

³⁰nokuna vakanga vari Horima, nokuna vakanga vari Korashani, nokuna vakanga vari Ataki,

³⁰And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,

³¹nokuna vakanga vari Hebhuroni, nokuna vose vakanga vari panzvimbo dzaifamba Dhavhidhi amene navanhu vake.

³¹And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.