¹Zvino nenguva iyo Abhija mwanakomana waJerobhoamu akarwara.

¹At that time was Abijah son of Jeroboam sick,

²Jerobhoamu akati kumukadzi wake, Simuka hako, ushandure nguvo dzako, kuti urege kuzikamwa kuti ndiwe mukadzi waJerobhoamu, ugoenda Shiro; tarira, muporofita Ahija uripo, iye wakadeya kutaura pamusoro pangu, kuti ndizova mambo wavanhu ava.

²and Jeroboam saith to his wife, `Rise, I pray thee, and change thyself, and they know not that thou [art] wife of Jeroboam, and thou hast gone to Shiloh; lo, there [is] Ahijah the prophet; he spake unto me of [being] king over this people;

³Uende nezvingwa zvine gumi, nezvingwa zviduku, nechidende chouchi, uzviise kwaari; iye uchakuudza zvichaitirwa mwana.

³and thou hast taken in thy hand ten loaves, and crumbs, and a bottle of honey, and hast gone in unto him; he doth declare to thee what becometh of the youth.`

⁴Mukadzi waJerobhoamu akaita saizvozvo, akasimuka, akaenda Shiro, akasvika paimba yaAhija. Zvino Ahija wakange asingagoni kuona, nekuti meso ake akanga owonera madzedzerere nemhaka yokukwegura kwake.

⁴And the wife of Jeroboam doth so, and riseth, and goeth to Shiloh, and entereth the house of Ahijah, and Ahijah is not able to see, for his eyes have stood because of his age.

⁵Zvino Jehovha akati kuna Ahija, Tarira, mukadzi waJerobhoamu unouya kuzokubvunza pamusoro pomwanakomana wake, nekuti unorwara; unofanira kutaura zvokuti nezvokuti kwaari, nekuti kana achipinda, uchazviita somumwe mukadzi.

⁵And Jehovah said unto Ahijah, `Lo, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from thee concerning her son, for he is sick; thus and thus thou dost speak unto her, and it cometh to pass at her coming in, that she is making herself strange.`

⁶Zvino Ahija wakati achinzwa kufamba kwetsoka dzake, achipinda pamukova, akati, Chipinda hako, iwe mukadzi waJerobhoamu, unozviitireiko somumwe? nekuti ndatumwa kwauri namashoko anorwadza moyo.

⁶And it cometh to pass, at Ahijah`s hearing the sound of her feet [as] she came in to the opening, that he saith, `Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why is this — thou art making thyself strange? and I am sent unto thee [with] a sharp thing:

⁷Enda, uudze Jerobhoamu, uti, Zvanzi naJehovha Mwari walsiraeri: Ndakakukudza pakati pavanhu, ndikakuita mutungamiriri wavanhu vangu vaIsiraeri,

⁷Go, say to Jeroboam, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Because that I have made thee high out of the midst of the people, and appoint thee leader over my people Israel,

⁸ndikabvarura ushe, ndikahubvisa paimba yaDhavhidhi, ndikahupa iwe; asi iwe hauna kuva saDhavhidhi muranda wangu, waichengeta mirairo yangu, akanditevera nomoyo wake wose, achiita zvakanaka zvoga pameso angu;

⁸and rend the kingdom from the house of David, and give it to thee, — and thou hast not been as My servant David who kept My commands, and who walked after Me with all his heart, to do only that which [is] right in Mine eyes,

⁹asi iwe wakaita zvakaipa kupfuura vose vakakutangira, ukandozviitira vamwe vamwari nemifananidzo yakaumbwa, kuti unditsamwise; ukandirashira shure komusana wako.

⁹and thou dost evil above all who have been before thee, and goest, and makest to thee other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and Me thou hast cast behind thy back:

¹⁰Naizvozvo, tarira, ndichaitira imba yaJerobhoamu zvakaipa; ndichaparadza kuna Jerobhoamu vana vakomana vose, vaduku navakuru kuvaIsiraeri, nditsvaire chose imba yaJerobhoamu, somunhu unotsvaira marara kusvikira abva ose.

¹⁰`Therefore, lo, I am bringing in evil unto the house of Jeroboam, and have cut off to Jeroboam those sitting on the wall — shut up and left — in Israel, and have put away the posterity of the house of Jeroboam, as one putteth away the dung till its consumption;

¹¹Ani naani weimba yaJerobhoamu unofira paguta uchadyiwa nembwa; unofira kusango uchadyiwa neshiri dzokudenga; nekuti Jehovha wakataura saizvozvo.

¹¹him who dieth of Jeroboam in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dieth in a field do fowl of the heavens eat, for Jehovah hath spoken.

¹²Naizvozvo iwe, simuka uende kumba kwako; kana tsoka dzako dzichipinda paguta, mwana uchafa.

¹²`And thou, rise, go to thy house; in the going in of thy feet to the city — hath the lad died;

¹³Valsiraeri vose vachamuchema, vakamuviga; nekuti ndiye oga waJerobhoamu uchasvika pahwiro, nekuti maari makawanikwa chinhu chakanaka chakafadza Jehovha Mwari waIsiraeri, paimba yaJerobhoamu.

¹³and all Israel have mourned for him, and buried him, for this one — by himself — cometh of Jeroboam unto a grave, because there hath been found in him a good thing towards Jehovah, God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

¹⁴Jehovha uchazvimutsirawo mambo kuvaIsiraeri, uchaparadza imba yaJerobhoamu nomusi uyo. Nomusi uyo here? Zvotoitwa zvino.

¹⁴`And Jehovah hath raised up for Him a king over Israel who cutteth off the house of Jeroboam this day — and what? — even now!

¹⁵Nekuti Jehovha ucharova Isiraeri, sorutsanga runozununguswa mumvura; uchadzura Isiraeri panyika ino yakanaka, yaakapa madzibaba avo, nokuvaparadzira mhiri kwerwizi; nekuti vakazviitira matanda okunamata nawo vakatsamwisa Jehovha.

¹⁵And Jehovah hath smitten Israel as the reed is moved by the waters, and hath plucked Israel from off this good ground that He gave to their fathers, and scattered them beyond the River, because that they made their shrines, provoking Jehovah to anger;

¹⁶Uchaisa Isiraeri kuvavengi nokuda kwezvivi zvaJerobhoamu, zvaakaita iye, nezvaakatadzisa Isiraeriwo nazvo.

¹⁶and He giveth up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin.`

¹⁷Zvino mukadzi waJerobhoamu akasimuka, akaenda, akasvika Tiriza; wakati achisvika pachikumbaridzo cheimba, mwana akafa.

¹⁷And the wife of Jeroboam riseth, and goeth, and cometh to Tirzah; she hath come in to the threshold of the house, and the youth dieth;

¹⁸VaIsiraeri vose vakamuviga, vakamuchema, sezvakanga zvarehwa naJehovha nomuromo womuranda wake muporofita Ahija.

¹⁸and they bury him, and mourn for him do all Israel, according to the word of Jehovah, that he spake by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet.

¹⁹Zvino mamwe mabasa aJerobhoamu, kurwa kwake, nokubata kwake ushe, tarirai zvakanyorwa mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aIsiraeri.

¹⁹And the rest of the matters of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, lo, they are written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

²⁰Mazuva okubata ushe kwaJerobhoamu akanga ari makore makumi maviri namaviri; akavata namadzibaba ake, Nadhabhi mwanakomana wake, akamutevera paushe.

²⁰And the days that Jeroboam reigned [are] twenty and two years, and he lieth with his fathers, and reign doth Nadab his son in his stead.

²¹Zvino Rehobhoamu mwanakomana waSoromoni, wakabata ushe hwaJudha. Rehobhoamu wakange ana makore makumi mana nerimwe pakutanga kwake kubata ushe, akabata ushe makore ane gumi namanomwe paJerusaremu, iro guta rakanga ratsaurwa naJehovha pakati pamarudzi ose alsiraeri, kuti aise zita rakepo. Zita ramai vake rakanga riri Naama muAmoni.

²¹And Rehoboam son of Solomon hath reigned in Judah; a son of forty and one years [is] Rehoboam in his reigning, and seventeen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, the city that Jehovah chose to set His name there, out of all the tribes of Israel, and the name of his mother [is] Naamah the Ammonitess.

²²Judha akaita zvakaipa pameso aJehovha; vakamutsa shungu dzake nezvivi zvavo zvavakanga vachiita, vakapfuura zvose zvakaitwa namadzibaba avo.

²²And Judah doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and they make Him zealous above all that their fathers did by their sins that they have sinned.

²³Nekuti naivo vakazvivakira matunhu akakwirira, neshongwe, namatanda okunamata nawo pazvikomo zvose zvakakwirira, napasi pemiti yose mitema.

²³And they build — also they — for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;

²⁴Vasodhomi vakanga varipowo panyika; ivo vakaita nemitowo yokunyangadza kose kwendudzi dzakanga dzadzingwa naJehovha pamberi pavana vaIsiraeri.

²⁴and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

²⁵Zvino pagore rechishanu ramambo Rehobhoamu, Shishaki mambo weEgipita akakwira kuzorwa naJerusaremu;

²⁵And it cometh to pass, in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, gone up hath Shishak king of Egypt against Jerusalem,

²⁶akatora fuma yeimba yaJehovha, nefuma yeimba yamambo; akazvitora zvose, akatorawo nhovo duku dzose dzendarama dzakanga dzaitwa naSoromoni.

²⁶and he taketh the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king, yea, the whole he hath taken; and he taketh all the shields of gold that Solomon made.

²⁷Ipapo mambo Rehobhoamu akaita panzvimbo yadzo nhovo duku dzendarira, akadziisa pamaoko avakuru vavarindi, vairinda mukova weimba yamambo.

²⁷And king Rehoboam maketh in their stead shields of brass, and hath made [them] a charge on the hand of the heads of the runners, those keeping the opening of the house of the king,

²⁸Zvino nguva dzose kana mambo achipinda mumba maJehovha, varindi vaidzibata, ndokudzidzoserazve mumba mavarindi.

²⁸and it cometh to pass, from the going in of the king to the house of Jehovah, the runners bear them, and have brought them back unto the chamber of the runners.

²⁹Mamwe mabasa aRehobhoamu, nezvose zvaakaita, hazvina kunyorwa here mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aJudha.

²⁹And the rest of the matters of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

³⁰Asi kurwa kwaivapo nguva dzose pakati paRehobhoamu naJerobhoamu.

³⁰And war hath been between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days;

³¹Rehobhoamu akavata namadzibaba ake, akavigwa kunamadzibaba ake muguta raDhavhidhi; zita ramai vake rakanga riri Naama muAmoni. Abhija mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.

³¹and Rehoboam lieth with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers, in the city of David, and the name of his mother [is] Naamah the Ammonitess, and reign doth Abijam his son in his stead.