¹Zvino pamazuva aDhavhidhi kwakanga kune nzara makore matatu akatevedzana; Dhavhidhi akabvunza Jehovha. Jehovha akati, Imhaka yaSauro neyeimba yake yeropa, nekuti vakauraya vaGibhiyoni.

¹Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

²Mambo akadana vaGibhiyoni, akati kwavari; Zvino vaGibhiyoni vakanga vasi vavana vaIsiraeri, asi ndivo vakanga vasara kuvaAmori, ndivo vakanga vapikirwa navaIsiraeri; asi Sauro wakatsvaka kuvauraya nokushingairira kwake vana vaIsiraeri navaJudha;

²And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

³Dhavhidhi akati kuva Gibhiyoni, Ndingakuitirai chinyi? Ndingayananisa neiko, kuti muropafadze nhaka yaJehovha?

³Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?

⁴VaGibhiyoni vakati kwaari, Haizi mhosva yesirivha kana yendarama pakati pedu naSauro neimba yake, nesu hatingafaniri kuuraya munhu pakati paIsiraeri. Iye akati, Chamunoreva ndichakuitirai icho.

⁴And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.

⁵Ivo vakati kuna mambo, Iye munhu, wakatipedza, wakatifungira mano akaipa kuti tiparadzwe, tirege kugara panyika yose yalsiraeri,

⁵And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,

⁶varume vanomwe vavana vake ngavapiwesu, tivasungirire pamberi paJehovha paGibhiya raSauro, mutsaurwa waJehovha. Mambo akati, Ndichakupai ivo.

⁶Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.

⁷Asi mambo wakarega Mefibhosheti mwanakomana waJonatani, mwanakomana waSauro, nokuda kokupika kwakanga kuri pakati pavo pamberi paJehovha, pakati paDhavhidhi naJonatani mwanakomana waSauro.

⁷But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

⁸Asi mambo wakatora vana vaviri vaRizipa, mukunda waAya, vaakanga aberekera Sauro, Amoni naMefibhosheti, navana vashanu vaMikari mukunda waSauro, vaakanga aberekera Adhirieri mwanakomana waBharizirai muMehorati;

⁸But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

⁹akavaisa mumaoko avaGibhiyoni, ivo vakavasungirira pagomo pamberi paJehovha, vakafa vari vanomwe; vakaurawa pamazuva okukohwa, pamazuva okutanga, pakutanga kokukohwa bhari.

⁹And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

¹⁰Zvino Rizipa mukunda waAya wakatora makudza, akazviwarira iwo pamusoro pedombo, kubva pakutanga kokukohwa kusvikira aniwa nemvura yakabva kudenga; haana kutendera shiri dzokudenga kumhara pamusoro pawo masikati, kana zvikara zvesango usiku.

¹⁰And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

¹¹Zvino Dhavhidhi akaudzwa zvakanga zvaitwa naRizipa mukunda waAya, murongo waSauro;

¹¹And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

¹²Dhavhidhi akandotora mafupa aSauro namafupa aJonatani mwanakomana wake kuvarume veJabheshiGiriyadhi, vakanga vaaba panzira yeBhetishani, pavakanga vaturikwa navaFirisitia, pazuva rokuurawa kwaSauro navaFirisitia paGiribhoa.

¹²And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:

¹³Akatorapo mafupa aSauro namafupa aJonatani mwanakomana wake, vakaunganidza mafupa avakanga vaturikwapo.

¹³And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

¹⁴Vakaviga mafupa aSauro naaJonatani mwanakomana wake panyika yavaBhenjamini paZera, pahwiro hwababa vake; vakaita zvose zvavakanga varairwa namambo. Shure kwaizvozvo Mwari akanzwira nyika tsitsi.

¹⁴And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

¹⁵Zvino vaFirisitia vakarwazve navaIsiraeri; Dhavhidhi akaburuka navaranda vake kundorwa navaFirisitia; Dhavhidhi akaneta.

¹⁵Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.

¹⁶Zvino Ishibhibhenobhi, mumwe wavanakomana vaRafa, waiva nepfumo rakasvika pamashekeri ana mazana matatu endarira pakurema kwaro, iye wakange akashonga munondo mutsva, akafunga kuuraya Dhavhidhi.

¹⁶And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

¹⁷Asi Abhishai mwanakomana waZeruya wakamubatsira, akabaya muFirisitia, akamuuraya. Ipapo varume vaDhavhidhi vakapika kwaari, vakati, Hamufaniri kuzoendazve nesu kundorwa, kuti murege kuzodzima mwenje waIsiraeri.

¹⁷But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.

¹⁸Zvino shure kwaizvozvo kurwa kwazovapozve navaFirisitia paGobhi; Sibekai, muHushati, akauraya Safi, mumwe wavanakomana vaRafa.

¹⁸And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.

¹⁹Vakarwazve navaFirisitia paGobhi, Erihanani mwanakomana waJaarioregimi weBheterehemu akauraya Goriati muGiti, rwiriko rwepfumo rake rwakaga rwakaita sedanda romuruki.

¹⁹And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

²⁰Vakarwazve paGati, paiva nomunhu murefu kwazvo, waiva nemimwe mitanhatu paruoko rumwe norumwe, nezvigumwe zvitanhatu parutsoka rumwe norumwe, zvaisvika makumi maviri nezvina pakuverengwa kwazvo; naiyewo wakange akaberekerwa Rafa.

²⁰And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

²¹Zvino wakati achishora vaIsiraeri, Jonatani mwanakomana waShimei, munin'ina waDhavhidhi akamuuraya.

²¹And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the brother of David slew him.

²²Ava vana vakanga vakaberekerwa Rafa paGati; vakaurawa naDhavhidhi, uye navaranda vake.

²²These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.