¹Sauro wakange anamakore ana makumi matatu pakutanga kwake kutonga ushe, akabata vaIsiraeri makore maviri.

¹A son of a year [is] Saul in his reigning, yea, two years he hath reigned over Israel,

²Sauro akazvitsaurira varume vaIsiraeri vane zviuru zvitatu; zviuru zviviri zvavo zvaigara kuna Sauro paMikimashi pagomo reBetieri, nechiuru chimwe chaigara naJonatani paGibhiya kwaBhenjamini; vamwe vanhu vose akavadzosera, mumwe nomumwe kutende rake.

²and Saul chooseth for himself three thousand [men] out of Israel; and two thousand are with Saul in Michmash, and in the hill-country of Beth-El; and a thousand have been with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin; and the remnant of the people he hath sent each to his tents.

³Jonatani akaparadza boka ravarwi vavaFirisitia vaigara Gebha; vaFirisitia vakazvinzwa. Zvino Sauro akaridza hwamanda panyika yose, akati, VaHebheru ngavanzwe.

³And Jonathan smiteth the garrison of the Philistines which [is] in Geba, and the Philistines hear, and Saul hath blown with a trumpet through all the land, saying, `Let the Hebrews hear.`

⁴Valsiraeri vose vakanzwa kuti Sauro waparadza boka ravarwi vavaFirisitia, uye kuti vaIsiraeri vovengwa navaFirisitia. Vanhu vose vakaunganidzwa kutivaende Girigari naSauro.

⁴And all Israel have heard, saying, `Saul hath smitten the garrison of the Philistines,` and also, `Israel hath been abhorred by the Philistines;` and the people are called after Saul to Gilgal.

⁵Zvino vaFirisitia vakaungana kuzorwa navaIsiraeri, vane ngoro dzine zviuru zvina makumi matatu, navatasvi vane zviuru zvitanhatu, navanhu vakanga vakafanana nejecha regungwa pakuwanda kwavo; vakakwira vakandodzika matende avo paMikimashi, kumabvazuva kweBhetiaveni.

⁵And the Philistines have been gathered to fight with Israel; thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a people as the sand which [is] on the sea-shore for multitude; and they come up and encamp in Michmash, east of Beth-Aven.

⁶Zvino varume vaIsiraeri vakati vachiona kuti vava panjodzi (nokuti vanhu vakanga vomanikidzwa), vanhu vakavanda mumapako, nomumatenhere, napakati pamatombo, nomunhare, nomumakomba.

⁶And the men of Israel have seen that they are distressed, that the people hath been oppressed, and the people hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

⁷Uye vamwe vavaHebheru vakanga vayambuka Joridhani kunyika yaGadi neyagiriyadi, asi Sauro wakange achiri Girigari, vanhu vose vakamutevera vachibvunda.

⁷And Hebrews have passed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; and Saul [is] yet in Gilgal, and all the people have trembled after him.

⁸Akamira mazuva manomwe akanga atarwa naSamueri; asi Samueri haana kusvika paGirigari, vanhu vakatanga kupararira vachimusiya.

⁸And he waiteth seven days, according to the appointment with Samuel, and Samuel hath not come to Gilgal, and the people are scattered from off him.

⁹Zvino Sauro akati, Uyai kwandiri nechipiriso chinopiswa nezvipiriso zvokuyananisa. Akapisa chipiriso chinopiswa.

⁹And Saul saith, `Bring nigh unto me the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings;` and he causeth the burnt-offering to ascend.

¹⁰Zvino wakati achangopedza kupisa chipiriso chinopiswa, Samueri akasvika; Sauro akabuda kundosangana naye, kuti amukwazise.

¹⁰And it cometh to pass at his completing to cause the burnt-offering to ascend, that lo, Samuel hath come, and Saul goeth out to meet him, to bless him;

¹¹Samueri akati, Waiteiko? Sauro akati, Ndakaona kuti vanhu vopararira, vachindisiya, uye kuti imwi hamuna kusvika namazuva akanga atarwa, uye kuti vaFirisitia vakanga vaungana paMikimashi,

¹¹and Samuel saith, `What hast thou done?` And Saul saith, `Because I saw that the people were scattered from off me, and thou hadst not come at the appointment of the days, and the Philistines are gathered to Michmash,

¹²saka ndikati, Zvino vaFirisitia vachaburuka kuzondivamba paGirigari ini ndichigere kukumbira Jehovha kundibatsira; naizvozvo ndakazvigombedzera ndikapisira chipiriso chinopiswa, ndisingadi hangu.

¹²and I say, Now do the Philistines come down unto me to Gilgal, and the face of Jehovah I have not appeased; and I force myself, and cause the burnt-offering to ascend.`

¹³Samueri akati kuna Sauro, Waita sebenzi; hauna kuchengeta murayiro waJehovha Mwari wako, waakanga akuraira; nekuti zvino Jehovha wakange achida kusimbisa ushe hwako pakati pavaIsiraeri nokusingaperi.

¹³And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Thou hast been foolish; thou hast not kept the command of Jehovah thy God, which He commanded thee, for now had Jehovah established thy kingdom over Israel unto the age;

¹⁴Asi zvino ushe hwako hahungagari; Jehovha wakazvitsvakira munhu unofadza moyo wake, Jehovha akamugadza ave mutungamiriri wavanhu vake, nekuti iwe hauna kuchengeta zvawakanga warairwa naJehovha.

¹⁴and, now, thy kingdom doth not stand, Jehovah hath sought for Himself a man according to His own heart, and Jehovah chargeth him for leader over His people, for thou hast not kept that which Jehovah commanded thee.`

¹⁵Samueri akasimuka, akabva Girigari akaenda Gibhiya kwaBhenjamini. Sauro akaverenga vanhu vaakanga anavo, vakasvika varume vanenge mazana matanhatu.

¹⁵And Samuel riseth, and goeth up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin; and Saul inspecteth the people who are found with him, about six hundred men,

¹⁶Sauro naJonatani mwanakomana wake, navanhu vavakanga vanavo, vakagara paGebhiya kwaBhenjamini; asi vaFirisitia vakanga vavaka misasa yavo paMikimashi.

¹⁶and Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who are found with them, are abiding in Gibeah of Benjamin, and the Philistines have encamped in Michmash.

¹⁷Zvino vaparadzi vakabuda kumisasa yavaFirisitia, vakaita mapoka matatu; boka rimwe rakabuda nenzira inoenda Ofira kunyika yaShauri,

¹⁷And the destroyer goeth out from the camp of the Philistines — three detachments; the one detachment turneth unto the way of Ophrah, unto the land of Shual;

¹⁸rimwe boka rikabuda nenzira inoenda Bhetihoroni; nerimwe boka rikabuda nenzira yakaenda kumuganhu unotarira kumupata weZebhoimu, kurutivi rwerenje.

¹⁸and the one detachment turneth the way of Beth-Horon, and the one detachment turneth the way of the border which is looking on the valley of the Zeboim, toward the wilderness.

¹⁹Zvino kwakanga kusino mupfuri munyika yose yaIsiraeri, nekuti vaFirisitia vakati, VaHebheru ngavarege kuzvipfurira minondo namapfumo.

¹⁹And an artificer is not found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, `Lest the Hebrews make sword or spear;`

²⁰Asi vaIsiraeri vose vaifanira kuburukira kuvaFirisitia, mumwe nomumwe kana achida kurodzerwa muromo wegeja rake, nebadza rake, nesanhu rake, nembezo yake;

²⁰and all Israel go down to the Philistines, to sharpen each his ploughshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;

²¹nguva imwe neimwe kana mbezo dzavo, namapadza avo, neforogo dzavo, namasanhu avo zvokomara; uye kugadzirirwa zvokubaya mombe nazvo.

²¹and there hath been the file for mattocks, and for coulters, and for three-pronged rakes, and for the axes, and to set up the goads.

²²Naizvozvo panguva yokurwa kwakanga kusino munondo, kana pfumo muruoko rwomunhu mumwe wavanhu vakanga vanaSauro naJonatani; asi Sauro naJonatani mwanakomana wake vakanga vanazvo.

²²And it hath been, in the day of battle, that there hath not been found sword and spear in the hand of any of the people who [are] with Saul and with Jonathan — and there is found to Saul and to Jonathan his son.

²³Zvino boka ravarwi vavaFirisitia rakabuda kumupata weMikimashi.

²³And the station of the Philistines goeth out unto the passage of Michmash.