¹Zvino negore regumi namaviri raAhazi mambo waJudha, Hoshea mwanakomana waEra wakatanga kubata ushe hwaIsiraeri paSamaria, akahubata makore mapfumbamwe.

¹In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, [and reigned] nine years.

²Akaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha; asi haana kufanana namadzimambo aIsiraeri akamutangira.

²And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, yet not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

³Zvino Sharimaneseri mambo weAsiria akasvika kuzorwa naye, Hoshea akava muranda wake, akamuteerera mutero.

³Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.

⁴Asi mambo weAsiria wakati achiona kuti Hoshea akarangana navamwe kumumukira, nekuti wakange atuma nhume kuna Soromoni mambo weEgipita, akazorega kuteerera mambo weAsiria mutero gore rimwe nerimwe, mambo weAsiria akamupfigira mutirongo akamusunga.

⁴And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

⁵Ipapo mambo weAsiria akafamba nenyika yose, akaenda Samaria, akarikomba makore matatu.

⁵Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

⁶Negore repfumbamwe raHoshea, mambo weAsiria akakunda Samaria, akatapa vaIsiraeri, akaenda navo Asiria, akavaisa paHara, napaHabhori, parwizi Gozani, napamaguta avaMedhi.

⁶In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

⁷Izvozvo zvakaitwa, nekuti vana vaIsiraeri vakatadzira Jehovha Mwari wavo, iye wakange avabudisa panyika yeEgipita kwavakanga vakabatwa naFarao mambo vakatya vamwe vamwari,

⁷And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

⁸vakafamba nemitemo yendudzi dzakanga dzadzingwa naJehovha pamberi pavana vaIsiraeri, neyamadzimambo aIsiraeri yavakatema ivo.

⁸and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

⁹Vana vaIsiraeri vakaita pakavanda zvisina kururama pamberi paJehovha Mwari wavo, vakazvivakira matunhu akakwirira mumaguta avo ose,kubva pachirindo chavarindi kusvikira pamaguta akakombwa.

⁹And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Jehovah their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

¹⁰Vakazvimutsira shongwe namatanda okunamata nawo pamatunhu ose akakwirira, napasi pemiti yose mitema.

¹⁰and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

¹¹Vakapisirapo zvinonhuhwira pamatunhu ose akakwirira, sezvaiita ndudzi dzakanga dzabviswa pamberi pavo naJehovha; vakaita zvakashata zvakatsamwisa Jehovha;

¹¹and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

¹²vakashumira zvifananidzo, zvavakanga vanzi naJehovha, Regai kuita chinhu ichi.

¹²and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

¹³Kunyange zvakadaro Jehovha wakapupurira Isiraeri naJudha nemiromo yavaporofita vose navawoni vose, akati, Dzokai panzira dzenyu dzakaipa, muchengete mirairo yangu nezvandakatema, sezvakarehwa nomurayiro wangu wose wandakaraira madzibaba enyu, wandakatuma nemiromo yavaporofita varanda vangu.

¹³Yet Jehovah testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

¹⁴Kunyange zvakadaro, vakaramba kuteerera, vakawomesa mitsipa yavo, semitsipa yamadzibaba avo, vakanga vasingatendi Jehovha Mwari wavo.

¹⁴Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in Jehovah their God.

¹⁵Vakaramba mitemo yake nesungano yake yaakaita namadzibaba avo, nezvipupuriro zvake zvaakavapupurira, vakatevera zvisina maturo, ivo vakava vasina maturo, vakatevera ndudzi dzakavapoteredza, ivo vavakanga varairwa naJehovha kuti varege kuita saivo.

¹⁵And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

¹⁶Vakasiya mirairo yose yaJehovha Mwari wavo, vakazviitira zvifananidzo zvakaumbwa, zvemhuru mbiri; vakaitawo matanda okunamata nawo, vakanamata hondo yose yokudenga, vakashumira Bhaari.

¹⁶And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

¹⁷Vakapinza vanakomana navakunda vavo mumoto, vakauka nokuita uroyi hwavo, vakazvitengesa kuti vaite zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha, vakamutsamwisa.

¹⁷And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

¹⁸Naizvozvo Jehovha wakatsamwira vaIsiraeri kwazvo, akavabvisa pachiso chake; hakuna vakasiiwa, asi rudzi rwaJudha chete.

¹⁸Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

¹⁹Kunyange navaJudhawo havana kuchengeta mirairo yaJehovha Mwari wavo, asi vakafamba nemitovo yavaIsiraeri, yavakatema.

¹⁹Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

²⁰Jehovha akarasha vana vaIsiraeri vose, akavatambudza, akavapa mumaoko avaparadzi, kusvikira avarashira kure nechiso chake.

²⁰And Jehovah rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

²¹Nekuti wakabvarura vaIsiraeri paimba yaDhavhidhi; vakaita Jerobhoamu mwanakomana waNebhati, mambo wavo, Jerobhoamu akatsausa vaIsiraeri, vakarega kutevera Jehovha, akavatadzisa nechivi chikuru.

²¹For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Jehovah, and made them sin a great sin.

²²Vana vaIsiraeri vakafamba pazvivi zvose zvaJerobhoamu, zvaakaita; havana kutsauka kwazviri;

²²And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;

²³kusvikira Jehovha abvisa Isiraeri kure nechiso chake, sezvaakataura nemiromo yavaporofita, varanda vake vose. Naizvozvo vaIsiraeri vakatapwa panyika yavo, vakaiswa Asiria kusvikira nhasi.

²³until Jehovah removed Israel out of his sight, as he spake by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.

²⁴Zvino mambo weAsiria wakatora vanhu paBhabhironi, napaKuta, napaAva, napaHamati, napaSefarivhaimi, akavaisa mumaguta eSamaria panzvimbo yavana vaIsiraeri; Samaria rikava ravo, vakagara mumaguta aro.

²⁴And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

²⁵Zvino pakutanga kokugarapo kwavo havana kutya Jehovha, Jehovha akatuma shumba pakati pavo, dzikavauraya vamwe vavo.

²⁵And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not Jehovah: therefore Jehovah sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

²⁶Naizvozvo vakaudza mambo weAsiria, vakati, Ndudzi dzavanhu dzamakatapa, mukavaisa mumaguta eSamaria, hadzizivi tsika dzaMwari wenyika iyo, naizvozvo wakatuma shumba pakati pavo, dzino vauraya, nekuti havazivi tsika dzaMwari wenyika iyo.

²⁶Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the law of the god of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the law of the god of the land.

²⁷Ipapo mambo weAsiria akaraira, akati, Isaiko mumwe wavapristi vamakatapapo; ngavaende kundogarako, avadzidzise tsika dzaMwari wenyika iyo.

²⁷Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.

²⁸Naizvozvo mumwe wavapristi vavakatapa paSamaria, wakandogara paBhetieri, akavadzidzisa sezvavanofanira kutya Jehovha.

²⁸So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear Jehovah.

²⁹Kunyange zvakadaro rudzi rumwe norumwe rwakazviitira vamwari varwo, vakavaisa mudzimba dzamatunhu akakwirira, dzakavakwa navaSamaria, rudzi rumwe norumwe pamaguta arwo, kwavaigara.

²⁹Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

³⁰Vanhu veBhabhironi vakavaka Sukotibhenoti, vanhu veKuti vakavaka Nerigari, vanhu veHamati vakavaka Ashima,

³⁰And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

³¹vaAvhi vakavaka Nibhazi neTaritaki, vaSefari- vhaimi vakapisa vana vavo mumoto kuna Adhiramereki naAnamereki, vamwari veSefari-vhaimi.

³¹and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

³²Naizvozvo vakasatya Jehovha, vakazvitsaurira pakati pavo vapristi vamatunhu akakwirira, vaivabayirira mudzimba dzamatunhu akakwirira.

³²So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

³³Vakatya Jehovha, vakashumira vamwari vavo, vachitevera tsika dzendudzi kwavakanga vatapwako.

³³They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

³⁴Kusvikira zuva ranhasi vanotevera tsika dzakare, havatyi Jehovha, kana kuita sezvavanorairwa nemitemo yavo, kana zviga zvavo, kana murayiro wavo, kana mirau yavo, yakanga yarairwa vana vaJakove naJehovha, iye waakatumidza zita rinonzi Isiraeri;

³⁴Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

³⁵Jehovha akaita sungano navo, akavaraira, akati, Regai kutya vamwe vamwari, kana kuvapfugamira kana kuvashumira, kana kuvabayira,

³⁵with whom Jehovah had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:

³⁶asi Jehovha, wakakubudisai paEgipita nesimba guru, noruoko rwakatambanudzwa, ndiye wamunofanira kutya, ndiye wamunofanira kufugamira, ndiye wamunofanira kubayira.

³⁶but Jehovah, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, him shall ye fear, and unto him shall ye bow yourselves, and to him shall ye sacrifice:

³⁷Mitemo, nezviga, nomurayiro, nomurau, zvaakakunyorerai, munofanira kuzvichengeta nokusingaperi, hamufaniri kutya vamwe vamwari;

³⁷and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods:

³⁸uye hamufaniri kukangamwa sungano yandakaita nemi; uye hamufaniri kutya vamwe vamwari;

³⁸and the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods:

³⁹asi munofanira kutya Jehovha Mwari wenyu; iye achakusunungurai pamaoko avavengi venyu vose.

³⁹but Jehovah your God shall ye fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

⁴⁰Kunyange zvakadaro havana kuteerera, asi vakatevera tsika dzakare.

⁴⁰Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

⁴¹Naizvozvo ndudzi idzi dzakatya Jehovha, dzikashumirawo zvifananidzo zvadzo zvakavezwa; navana vavo, navana vavana vavo, vanoita saizvozvo kusvikira nhasi, sezvakaita madzibaba avo.

⁴¹So these nations feared Jehovah, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.