¹Zvino Hezekia akatuma nhume kuvaIsiraeri nokuvaJudha vose,akanyorawo tsamba kuvaEfuremu navaManase, kuti vauye kuimba yaJehovha paJerusaremu, kuzoitira Jehovha Mwari wavaIsiraeri Pasika.

¹And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto Jehovah, the God of Israel.

²nekuti mambo namachinda ake, neungano yose paJerusaremu vakanga varangana kuita Pasika nomwedzi wechipiri.

²For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

³Nekuti vakanga vasingagoni kuiita nenguva iyo, nekuti vapristi, vakanatswa, vakanga vasingaringani, navanhuwo vakanga vasina kuungana paJerusaremu.

³For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

⁴Zvino chinhu ichi chakanga chakarurama pamberi pamambo neungano yose.

⁴And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.

⁵Naizvozvo vakasimbisa chirevo, vakazivisa pakati palsiraeri pose, kubva paBheerishebha kusvikira paDhani, kuti vanhu vauye kuzoitira Jehovha Mwari wavaIsiraeri Pasika paJerusaremu; nekuti vakanga vasina kuiita nguva huru, sezvakanga zvakanyorwa.

⁵So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written.

⁶Ipapo nhume dzakamhanya dzikaenda netsamba dzamambo namachinda ake pakati pavaIsiraeri vose navaJudha, sezvavakanga varairwa namambo, vakati, Imi vana vaIsiraeri, dzokeraizve kuna Jehovha Mwari waAbhurahamu, naIsaka, naIsiraeri, kuti iye adzokerezve kunavakasara pakati penyu, vakapukunyuka, pamaoko amadzimambo eAsiria.

⁶So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that are escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

⁷Regai kuva samadzibaba enyu, nehama dzenyu, vakadarika mirairo yaJehovha Mwari wamadzibaba enyu, iye akazovaita chishamiso sezvamunoona.

⁷And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

⁸Regai kuva nemitsipa mikukutu, sezvakanga zvakaita madzibaba enyu; zvipirei kuna Jehovha, mupinde paimba yake tsvene, yaakanatsa nokusingaperi, mushumire Jehovha Mwari wenyu, kuti kutsamwa kwake kubviswe kwamuri.

⁸Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto Jehovah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve Jehovah your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

⁹Nekuti kana imwi mukadzokera kuna Jehovha, hama dzenyu navana venyu vachanzwirwa tsitsi navatapi vavo, vagodzokerazve kunyika ino; nekuti Jehovha Mwari wenyu ane tsitsi nenyasha; haangafuratidzi chiso chake kwamuri, kana mukadzokera kwaari.

⁹For if ye turn again unto Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

¹⁰Naizvozvo nhume dzakamhanya dzikapota pamaguta ose panyika yose yaEfuremu naManase, kusvikira paZebhuruni; asi vakavaseka, nokuvadadira.

¹⁰So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

¹¹Asi vamwe vavaAsheri navaManase navaZebhuruni, vakazvininipisa, vakaenda Jerusaremu.

¹¹Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

¹²NapaJudhawo ruoko rwaMwari rwakavapa moyo mumwe, kuti vateerere murayiro wamambo namachinda neshoko raJehovha.

¹²Also upon Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of Jehovah.

¹³Ipapo vanhu vazhinji vakaungana paJerusaremu, kuzoita mutambo wezvingwa zvisina kuviriswa nomwedzi wechipiri, ikaita ungano huru kwazvo.

¹³And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

¹⁴Vakasimuka, ndokubvisa aritari dzaiva paJerusaremu, vakabvisawo aritari dzose dzezvipfungaidzo zvinonhuhwira, vakadzikandira murukova Kidhironi.

¹⁴And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

¹⁵Ipapo vakauraya gwayana rePasika pazuva regumi namana romwedzi wechipiri; vapristi navaRevhi vakanyara, vakazvinatsa, vakauya nezvipiriso zvinopiswa mumba maJehovha.

¹⁵Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt-offerings into the house of Jehovah.

¹⁶Vakamira panzvimbo yavo sezvavakarairwa nomurayiro waMozisi, iye munhu waMwari; vapristi vakasasa ropa ravakatora pamaoko avaRevhi.

¹⁶And they stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.

¹⁷Nekuti vazhinji vaivapo paungano vakanga vasina kuzvinatsa; saka vaRevhi vaiva nebasa rokuurayira vose, vakanga vasina kunatswa, makwayana ePasika yavo, kuti vavanatsire Jehovha.

¹⁷For there were many in the assembly that had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto Jehovah.

¹⁸Nekuti vanhu vazhinji-zhinji vaEfuremu navaManase, navaIsakari navaZebhuruni, vakanga vasinakuzvinatsa; kunyange zvakadaro vakadya Pasika nomutowo wakapesana nowakanyorwa. Nekuti Hezekia akanga avanyengeterera, achiti, Jehovha wakanaka ngaakangamwire mumwe nomumwe,

¹⁸For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Jehovah pardon every one

¹⁹unoshingaira nomoyo wake kutsvaka Mwari, Jehovha, Mwari wababa vake, kunyange asina kunatswa nomutowo wokunatswa kwenzvimbo tsvene.

¹⁹that setteth his heart to seek God, Jehovah, the God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.

²⁰Jehovha akanzwa Hezekia, akaporesa vanhu.

²⁰And Jehovah hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

²¹Zvino vana vaIsiraeri, vaiva paJerusaremu, vakaita mutambo wezvingwa zvisina kuviriswa nomufaro mukuru mazuva manomwe; vaRevhi navapristi vakarumbidza Jehovha zuva rimwe nerimwe, vachiridzira Jehovha nezvokuridzisa zvainzwika kure.

²¹And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Jehovah day by day, [singing] with loud instruments unto Jehovah.

²²Hezekia akataura nounyoro navaRevhi vose vaigona kubatira Jehovha zvakanaka. Naizvozvo vakadya pamutambo mazuva manomwe, vakabayira zvibayiro zvezvipiriso zvokuyananisa, vachizvireurura kuna Jehovha Mwari wamadzibaba avo.

²²And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that had good understanding [in the service] of Jehovah. So they did eat throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace-offerings, and making confession to Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

²³Zvino ungano yose yakarangana kuita mamwe mazuva manomwezve; vakaita mazuva manomwezve nomufaro.

²³And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.

²⁴Nekuti Hezekia mambo waJudha akapa ungano nzombe dzine chiuru chimwe, namakwai ane zviuru zvinomwe, kuti vabayire nazvo; namachindawo akapa ungano nzombe dzine chiuru chimwe, namakwai ane zviuru zvine gumi; vapristi vazhinji-zhinji vakazvinatsa.

²⁴For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

²⁵Ipapo ungano yose yaJudha, pamwechete navapristi navaRevhi, neungano yose yakabva pakati paIsiraeri, navatorwa vakabva panyika yaIsiraeri, navakanga vagere paJudha, vakafara vose.

²⁵And all the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

²⁶Naizvozvo mufaro mukuru ukavapo paJerusaremu; nekuti kubva panguva yaSoromoni mwanakomana waDhavhidhi, mambo walsiraeri, hakuna kuita zvakadaro paJerusaremu.

²⁶So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

²⁷Ipapo vapristi vaRevhi vakasimuka, vakaropafadza, vanhu; manzwi avo akanzwika, nokunyengetera kwavo kukasvika kuugaro hwake utsvene iko kudenga.

²⁷Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even unto heaven.