¹Zvino Ishibhohosheti mwanakomana waSauro, akati anzwa kuti Abhineri wakange afa paHebhuroni, maoko ake akashaiwa simba, navaIsiraeri vose vakavhunduka.

¹And the son of Saul heareth that Abner [is] dead in Hebron, and his hands are feeble, and all Israel have been troubled.

²Zvino mwanakomana waSauro wakange ana varume vaviri vakanga vari vakuru vamapoka; zita romumwe rakanga riri Bhaana, zita romumwe Rekabhu; vaiva vana vaRimoni muBheeroti, wavana vaBhenjamini; (nokuti Bheeroti rakanga richiverengerwawo kuna Bhenjamini;

²And two men, heads of troops, have been [to] the son of Saul, the name of the one [is] Baanah, and the name of the second Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the sons of Benjamin, for also Beeroth is reckoned to Benjamin,

³vaBheeroti vakatizira Gitaimu, vakava vatorwapo kusvikira nhasi).

³and the Beerothites flee to Gittaim, and are there sojourners unto this day.

⁴Zvino Jonatani mwanakomana waSauro, wakange ano mwanakomana wakaremara pamakumbo ake. Iye wakange ava namakore mashanu panguva yokusvika kweshoko rokuurawa kwaSauro naJonatani paJezereeri, mureri wake akamusimudza akatiza naye; zvino wakati achikurumidza kutiza, mwana akawa, akaremara. Zita rake rakanga riri Mefibhosheti.

⁴And to Jonathan son of Saul [is] a son — lame; he was a son of five years at the coming in of the rumour of [the death of] Saul and Jonathan, out of Jezreel, and his nurse lifteth him up, and fleeth, and it cometh to pass in her hasting to flee, that he falleth, and becometh lame, and his name [is] Mephibosheth.

⁵Vana vaRimoni muBheeroti, vanaRekabhu naBhaana, vakaenda, vakasvika paimba yaIshibhosheti zuva richipisa, iye achizorora masikati.

⁵And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, go, and come in at the heat of the day unto the house of Ish-Bosheth, and he is lying down — the lying down of noon;

⁶Vakapinda mukati meimba, vachiita sokuda kutora gorosi, vakamubaya nomudumbu; Rekabhu naBhaana ndokutiza.

⁶and thither they have come, unto the midst of the house, taking wheat, and they smite him unto the fifth [rib], and Rechab and Baanah his brother have escaped;

⁷nekuti vakanga vapinda mumba make mokuvata, vakamubaya, vakamuuraya, vakagura musoro wake, ndokutora musoro wake, vakaenda nenzira yeArabha usiku hwose.

⁷yea, they come in to the house, and he is lying on his bed, in the inner part of his bed-chamber, and they smite him, and put him to death, and turn aside his head, and they take his head, and go the way of the plain all the night,

⁸Vakaisa musoro walshibhosheti kuna Dhavhidhi paHebhuroni, vakati kuna mambo, Hoyo musoro waIshibhosheti mwanakomana waSauro muvengi wenyu, wakange achitsvaka kukuurayai; Jehovha wakatsiva ishe wangu mambo nhasi pamusoro paSauro navana vake.

⁸and bring in the head of Ish-Bosheth unto David in Hebron, and say unto the king, `Lo, the head of Ish-Bosheth, son of Saul, thine enemy, who sought thy life; and Jehovah doth give to my lord the king vengeance this day, of Saul and of his seed.`

⁹Dhavhidhi akapindura Rekabhu naBhaana munin'ina wake, vana vaRimoni muBheeroti, akati kwavari, NaJehovha mupenyu, wakadzikunura mweya wangu panjodzi dzose,

⁹And David answereth Rechab and Baanah his brother, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and saith to them, `Jehovah liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

¹⁰musi wandakaudzwa nomumwe, achiti, Tarirai, Sauro afa, achifunga kuti wauya neshoko rakanaka, ndakamubata, ndikamuuraya paZikiragi; ndiwo waiva mubayiro wandakamupa pamusoro peshoko rake.

¹⁰when one is declaring to me, saying, Lo, Saul is dead, and he was as a bearer of tidings in his own eyes, then I take hold on him, and slay him in Ziklag, instead of my giving to him [for] the tidings.

¹¹Ndoda kana vanhu vakaipa vauraya munhu wakarurama hake mumba make, avete panhovo dzake, handingarevi ropa rake pamaoko enyu zvino, ndikakubvisai panyika here?

¹¹Also — when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do not I require his blood of your hand, and have taken you away from the earth?`

¹²Ipapo Dhavhidhi akaraira majaya vakavauraya vakavagura maoko avo netsoka dzavo, vakavaturika kurutivi rwedziva paHebhuroni. Asi vakatora musoro walshibhosheti, vakauviga muhwiro hwaAbhineri paHebhuroni.

¹²And David commandeth the young men, and they slay them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hang [them] over the pool in Hebron, and the head of Ish-Bosheth they have taken, and bury [it] in the burying-place of Abner in Hebron.