¹Pagore regumi namasere ramambo Jerobhoami, Abhija akatanga kubata ushe hwaJudha.

¹Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

²Akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore matatu; zita ramai vake rakanga riri Mikaya, mukunda waUrieri weGibhiya. Kurwa kukavapo pakati paAbhija naJerobhoami.

²He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

³Abhija akarwa ane hondo yavarwi dzaiva mhare, varume vakatsaurwa vane zviuru mazana mana; Jerobhoamiwo akagadzira hondo kuzorwa naye, ana varume vakatsaurwa vane zviuru zvina mazana masere, vaiva varume vane simba noumhare.

³And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valor.

⁴Abhija akamira pamusoro pegomo rainzi Zemaraimi, raiva panyika yamakomo yaEfuremu, akati, Ndinzwei, Jerobhoami navaIsiraeri vose!

⁴And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

⁵Ko hamufaniri kuziva here kuti Jehovha Mwari walsiraeri akapa Dhavhidhi ushe hwaIsiraeri nokusingaperi, iye navanakomana vake nesungano yomunyu?

⁵Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

⁶Asi Jerobhoami mwanakomana waNebhati, muranda waSoromoni mwanakomana waDhavhidhi, akasimuka akamukira ishe wake.

⁶Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.

⁷Kukaunganira kwaari vanhu vakaipa, vakaisvoipa, vakazvisimbisa kundorwa naRehobhoamu mwanakomana waSoromoni, iye Rehobhoamu achiri muduku ano moyo unotya, asingagoni kurwa navo.

⁷And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

⁸Zvino munoda kurwa novushe bwaJehovha bwuri mumaoko avanakomana vaDhavhidhi; zvamuri vanhu vazhinji, mune mhuru dzendarama dzakaitwa naJerobhoami kuti vave vamwari venyu.

⁸And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with your golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.

⁹Hamuna kudzinga here vapristi vaJehovha, vanakomana vaAroni, navaRevhi, imwi mukazvitsaurira vapristi netsika dzavanhu vedzimwe nyika? Naizvozvo Ani naani anouya kuzvitsaurira Mwari ane nzombe imwe namakondobwe manomwe, iye angava mupristi wavamwari vasati vari vamwari.

⁹Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

¹⁰Asi kana tirisu, Jehovha ndiMwari wedu, hatina kumurasha; isu tina vapristi vanoshumira Jehovha, ivo vanakomana vaAroni, navaRevhi pamabasa avo.

¹⁰But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:

¹¹Ndivo vanopisira Jehovha zvipiriso zvinopiswa nezvinonhuhwira mangwanani ose namadekwana ose; nezvingwa zvokuratidza vanozvironga patafura yakaisvonaka; nechigadziko chendarama nemwenje yacho, kuvhenekera madekwana ose; nekuti tinochengeta zvatakarairwa naJehovha Mwari wedu; asi imwi makamurasha.

¹¹And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

¹²Zvino tarirai, Mwari anesu achititungamirira, navapristi vake vane hwamanda dzokuridza nadzo, kuti vakuridzirei mhere imi. Nhandi vana vaIsiraeri, regai kurwa naJehovha Mwari wamadzibaba enyu; nekuti hamungakundi.

¹²And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

¹³Asi Jerobhoami akaisa vavandiri kuti vavakombe necheshure kwavo; zvino ivo vakava pamberi paJudha, navavandiri vakanga vari shure kwavo.

¹³But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

¹⁴Zvino vaJudha vakati vachicheuka, vakaona kurwa mberi kwavo neshure kwavo; vakachema kuna Jehovha, vapristi vakaridza hwamanda.

¹⁴And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

¹⁵Ipapo vanhu vaJudha vakaridza mhere; vakati varidza mhere, Mwari akaparadza Jerobhoami navaIsiraeri vose pamberi paAbhija naJudha.

¹⁵Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

¹⁶Vana vaIsiraeri vakatiza pamberi paJudha, Mwari akavaisa mumaoko avo.

¹⁶And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

¹⁷Abhija navanhu vake vakavauraya nokuuraya kukuru; naizvozvo varume vakatsaurwa vane zviuru zvina mazana mashanu vakaurawa pakati paIsiraeri.

¹⁷And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

¹⁸Vana vaIsiraeri vakamanikidzwa saizvozvo nenguva iyo, vana vaJudha vakakunda, nekuti vakavimba naJehovha, Mwari wamadzibaba avo.

¹⁸Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.

¹⁹Abhija akateverera Jerobhoami, akamutorera maguta, aiti: Bhetieri nemisha yaro, neJeshana nemisha yaro, neEfironi nemisha yaro.

¹⁹And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephraim with the towns thereof.

²⁰Jerobhoami haana kuzova nesimbazve pamazuva aAbhija; Jehovha ndokumurova, akafa.

²⁰Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.

²¹Asi Abhija akazvisimbisa, akawana vakadzi vane gumi navana, akabereka vanakomana vana makumi maviri navaviri, navanasikana vane gumi navatanhatu.

²¹But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

²²Zvino mamwe mabasa aAbhija, netsika dzake, namashoko ake, zvakanyorwa padudziro yomuporofita Idho.

²²And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.