¹Zvino Jehoshafati akavata namadzibaba ake, akavigwa namadzibaba ake muguta raDhavhidhi; Jehoramu mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.

¹And Jehoshaphat lieth with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigneth in his stead.

²Iye akanga ana vanin'ina, vaiva vanakomana vaJehoshafati, vaiti: Azaria, naJehieri, naZekariya, naAzaria, naMikaeri, naShefatia; ava vose vaiva vanakomana vaJehoshafati mambo waIsiraeri.

²And he hath brethren, sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these [are] sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel,

³Baba vavo vakavapa zvipo zvikuru zvesirivha, nendarama, nezvinhu zvinokosha, pamwechete namaguta akakombwa paJudha; asi ushe wakahupa Jehoramu, nekuti iye akanga ari wedangwe.

³and their father giveth to them many gifts of silver and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah, and the kingdom he hath given to Jehoram, for He [is] the first-born.

⁴Zvino Jehoramu akati apinda paushe hwababa vake, ndokuzvisimbisa, akauraya vanin'ina vake vose nomunondo, navamwewo vamachinda aIsiraeri.

⁴And Jehoram riseth up over the kingdom of his father, and strengtheneth himself, and slayeth all his brethren with the sword, and also -- of the heads of Israel.

⁵Jehoramu akanga asvika makore makumi matatu namaviri pakutanga kwake kubata ushe; akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore masere.

⁵A son of thirty and two years [is] Jehoram in his reigning, and eight years he hath reigned in Jerusalem,

⁶Akafamba nenzira yamadzimambo alsiraeri, sezvakaita imba yaAhabhi; nekuti mukunda waAhabhi akanga ari mukadzi wake; akaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha.

⁶and he walketh in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for a daughter of Ahab hath been to him for a wife, and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah,

⁷Kunyange zvakadaro Jehovha akanga asingadi kuparadza imba yaDhavhidhi, nokuda kwesungano yaakanga aita naDhavhidhi, uye nekuti akanga amupikira kuti achamupa mwenje iye navana vake nguva dzose.

⁷and Jehovah hath not been willing to destroy the house of David, for the sake of the covenant that He made with David, and as He had said to give to him a lamp, and to his sons -- all the days.

⁸Zvino namazuva ake vaEdhomu vakamukira vaJudha, vakazviitira mambo wavo.

⁸In his days hath Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and cause a king to reign over them;

⁹Ipapo Jehoramu akaenda navakuru vake, ane ngoro dzake dzose naye; akamuka usiku, akaparadza vaEdhomu vakanga vakamukomba navakuru vengoro.

⁹and Jehoram passeth over with his heads, and all the chariots with him, and it cometh to pass, he hath risen by night and smiteth the Edomites who are coming round against him, and the princes of the chariots,

¹⁰Naizvozvo vaEdhomu vakamukira vaJudha, kusvikira zuva ranhasi. Ipapo veRibhinawo vakamumukira nenguva iyo; nekuti akanga arasha Jehovha, Mwari wamadzibaba ake.

¹⁰and Edom revolteth from under the hand of Judah unto this day; then doth Libnah revolt at that time from under his hand, because he hath forsaken Jehovah, God of his fathers,

¹¹Akaitawo matunhu akakwirira pamakomo aJudha, akapatisa vagere Jerusaremu, nokutsausa vaJudha.

¹¹also, he hath made high places in the mountains of Judah, and causeth the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit whoredom, and compelleth Judah.

¹²Ipapo tsamba yakabva kumuporofita Eria, ikasvika kwaari, ichiti, Zvanzi naJehovha Mwari wababa vako Dhavhidhi, Zvausina kufamba nenzira dzababa vako Jehoshafati, kana nenzira dzaAsa mambo waJudha;

¹²And there cometh in unto him a writing from Elijah the prophet, saying, `Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, Because that thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, and in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

¹³asi wakafamba nenzira dzamadzimambo aIsiraeri, ukapatisa Judha navagere Jerusaremu, sezvakaita imba yaAhabhi, ukaurayawo vanin'ina vako vakanga vakanaka kupfuura iwe;

¹³and thou dost walk in the way of the kings of Israel, and dost cause Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit whoredom like the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also thy brethren, the house of thy father, who are better than thyself, thou hast slain;

¹⁴zvino tarira, Jehovha acharova vanhu vako, navana vako, navakadzi vako, nezvinhu zvako zvose, nenjodzi yakaipa;

¹⁴lo, Jehovah is smiting -- a great smiting -- among thy people, and among thy sons, and among thy wives, and among all thy goods --

¹⁵iwe uchava nehosha yakaipa yomuura kusvikira ura hwako huchibuda kunze nemhaka yehosha iyo zuva rimwe nerimwe.

¹⁵and thou, with many sicknesses, with disease of thy bowels, till thy bowels come out, by the sickness, day by day.'

¹⁶Zvino Jehovha akakurudzira mweya yavaFirisitia neyavaArabhia, vakanga vari kurutivi rwavaltiopia, kuzorwa naJehoramu;

¹⁶And Jehovah waketh up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, who [are] beside the Cushim,

¹⁷vakandorwa navaJudha, vakapinda nyika yavo nesimba, ndokutora nhumbi dzose dzavakawana mumba mamambo, navanakomana vake, navakadzi vake; naizvozvo haana kusarirwa nomwanakomana, kunyange nomumwe asi Jehoahazi, muduku wavanakomana vake vose.

¹⁷and they come up into Judah, and rend it, and take captive all the substance that is found at the house of the king, and also his sons, and his wives, and there hath not been left to him a son except Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons.

¹⁸Shure kwaizvozvo zvose Jehovha akamurova muura hwake nehosha isingagoni kurapwa.

¹⁸And after all this hath Jehovah plagued him in his bowels by a disease for which there is no healing,

¹⁹Zvino makore maviri akati apera, ura hwake hukabuda kunze nemhaka yourwere, akafa nehosha dzakaipa; vanhu vake vakasamupisira, sezvavakapisira madzibaba ake.

¹⁹and it cometh to pass, from days to days, and at the time of the going out of the end of two years, his bowels have gone out with his sickness, and he dieth of sore diseases, and his people have not made for him a burning like the burning of his fathers.

²⁰Akanga asvika makore makumi matatu namaviri pakutanga kwake kubata ushe; akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore masere; akaenda hake asingadikamwi, vakamuviga paguta raDhavhidhi, asi havana kumuviga pamarinda amadzimambo.

²⁰A son of thirty and two [years] was he in his reigning, and eight years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and he goeth without desire, and they bury him in the city of David, and not in the graves of the kings.