¹Zvino Hezekia akatuma nhume kuvaIsiraeri nokuvaJudha vose,akanyorawo tsamba kuvaEfuremu navaManase, kuti vauye kuimba yaJehovha paJerusaremu, kuzoitira Jehovha Mwari wavaIsiraeri Pasika.

¹And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.

²nekuti mambo namachinda ake, neungano yose paJerusaremu vakanga varangana kuita Pasika nomwedzi wechipiri.

²For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

³Nekuti vakanga vasingagoni kuiita nenguva iyo, nekuti vapristi, vakanatswa, vakanga vasingaringani, navanhuwo vakanga vasina kuungana paJerusaremu.

³For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

⁴Zvino chinhu ichi chakanga chakarurama pamberi pamambo neungano yose.

⁴And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

⁵Naizvozvo vakasimbisa chirevo, vakazivisa pakati palsiraeri pose, kubva paBheerishebha kusvikira paDhani, kuti vanhu vauye kuzoitira Jehovha Mwari wavaIsiraeri Pasika paJerusaremu; nekuti vakanga vasina kuiita nguva huru, sezvakanga zvakanyorwa.

⁵So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.

⁶Ipapo nhume dzakamhanya dzikaenda netsamba dzamambo namachinda ake pakati pavaIsiraeri vose navaJudha, sezvavakanga varairwa namambo, vakati, Imi vana vaIsiraeri, dzokeraizve kuna Jehovha Mwari waAbhurahamu, naIsaka, naIsiraeri, kuti iye adzokerezve kunavakasara pakati penyu, vakapukunyuka, pamaoko amadzimambo eAsiria.

⁶So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

⁷Regai kuva samadzibaba enyu, nehama dzenyu, vakadarika mirairo yaJehovha Mwari wamadzibaba enyu, iye akazovaita chishamiso sezvamunoona.

⁷And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

⁸Regai kuva nemitsipa mikukutu, sezvakanga zvakaita madzibaba enyu; zvipirei kuna Jehovha, mupinde paimba yake tsvene, yaakanatsa nokusingaperi, mushumire Jehovha Mwari wenyu, kuti kutsamwa kwake kubviswe kwamuri.

⁸Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

⁹Nekuti kana imwi mukadzokera kuna Jehovha, hama dzenyu navana venyu vachanzwirwa tsitsi navatapi vavo, vagodzokerazve kunyika ino; nekuti Jehovha Mwari wenyu ane tsitsi nenyasha; haangafuratidzi chiso chake kwamuri, kana mukadzokera kwaari.

⁹For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

¹⁰Naizvozvo nhume dzakamhanya dzikapota pamaguta ose panyika yose yaEfuremu naManase, kusvikira paZebhuruni; asi vakavaseka, nokuvadadira.

¹⁰So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

¹¹Asi vamwe vavaAsheri navaManase navaZebhuruni, vakazvininipisa, vakaenda Jerusaremu.

¹¹Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

¹²NapaJudhawo ruoko rwaMwari rwakavapa moyo mumwe, kuti vateerere murayiro wamambo namachinda neshoko raJehovha.

¹²Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.

¹³Ipapo vanhu vazhinji vakaungana paJerusaremu, kuzoita mutambo wezvingwa zvisina kuviriswa nomwedzi wechipiri, ikaita ungano huru kwazvo.

¹³And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

¹⁴Vakasimuka, ndokubvisa aritari dzaiva paJerusaremu, vakabvisawo aritari dzose dzezvipfungaidzo zvinonhuhwira, vakadzikandira murukova Kidhironi.

¹⁴And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

¹⁵Ipapo vakauraya gwayana rePasika pazuva regumi namana romwedzi wechipiri; vapristi navaRevhi vakanyara, vakazvinatsa, vakauya nezvipiriso zvinopiswa mumba maJehovha.

¹⁵Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

¹⁶Vakamira panzvimbo yavo sezvavakarairwa nomurayiro waMozisi, iye munhu waMwari; vapristi vakasasa ropa ravakatora pamaoko avaRevhi.

¹⁶And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.

¹⁷Nekuti vazhinji vaivapo paungano vakanga vasina kuzvinatsa; saka vaRevhi vaiva nebasa rokuurayira vose, vakanga vasina kunatswa, makwayana ePasika yavo, kuti vavanatsire Jehovha.

¹⁷For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

¹⁸Nekuti vanhu vazhinji-zhinji vaEfuremu navaManase, navaIsakari navaZebhuruni, vakanga vasinakuzvinatsa; kunyange zvakadaro vakadya Pasika nomutowo wakapesana nowakanyorwa. Nekuti Hezekia akanga avanyengeterera, achiti, Jehovha wakanaka ngaakangamwire mumwe nomumwe,

¹⁸For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one

¹⁹unoshingaira nomoyo wake kutsvaka Mwari, Jehovha, Mwari wababa vake, kunyange asina kunatswa nomutowo wokunatswa kwenzvimbo tsvene.

¹⁹That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

²⁰Jehovha akanzwa Hezekia, akaporesa vanhu.

²⁰And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

²¹Zvino vana vaIsiraeri, vaiva paJerusaremu, vakaita mutambo wezvingwa zvisina kuviriswa nomufaro mukuru mazuva manomwe; vaRevhi navapristi vakarumbidza Jehovha zuva rimwe nerimwe, vachiridzira Jehovha nezvokuridzisa zvainzwika kure.

²¹And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.

²²Hezekia akataura nounyoro navaRevhi vose vaigona kubatira Jehovha zvakanaka. Naizvozvo vakadya pamutambo mazuva manomwe, vakabayira zvibayiro zvezvipiriso zvokuyananisa, vachizvireurura kuna Jehovha Mwari wamadzibaba avo.

²²And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.

²³Zvino ungano yose yakarangana kuita mamwe mazuva manomwezve; vakaita mazuva manomwezve nomufaro.

²³And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.

²⁴Nekuti Hezekia mambo waJudha akapa ungano nzombe dzine chiuru chimwe, namakwai ane zviuru zvinomwe, kuti vabayire nazvo; namachindawo akapa ungano nzombe dzine chiuru chimwe, namakwai ane zviuru zvine gumi; vapristi vazhinji-zhinji vakazvinatsa.

²⁴For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

²⁵Ipapo ungano yose yaJudha, pamwechete navapristi navaRevhi, neungano yose yakabva pakati paIsiraeri, navatorwa vakabva panyika yaIsiraeri, navakanga vagere paJudha, vakafara vose.

²⁵And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

²⁶Naizvozvo mufaro mukuru ukavapo paJerusaremu; nekuti kubva panguva yaSoromoni mwanakomana waDhavhidhi, mambo walsiraeri, hakuna kuita zvakadaro paJerusaremu.

²⁶So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

²⁷Ipapo vapristi vaRevhi vakasimuka, vakaropafadza, vanhu; manzwi avo akanzwika, nokunyengetera kwavo kukasvika kuugaro hwake utsvene iko kudenga.

²⁷Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.