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

¹Saul was ... years old when he became king; and he reigned two years 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 chose him three thousand men out of Israel: there were with Saul two thousand in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin; and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

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

³And Jonathan smote the outpost of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard [of it]. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout 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 heard say, Saul has smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and Israel also has become odious to the Philistines. And the people were called together 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 were assembled together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude; and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward from 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 saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed); and the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in cliffs, and in strongholds, and in pits.

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

⁷And the Hebrews went over the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. And Saul was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

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

⁸And he waited seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

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

⁹And Saul said, Bring hither to me the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings. And he offered up the burnt-offering.

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

¹⁰And it came to pass, as soon as he had ended offering up the burnt-offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute 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 said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou didst not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines were assembled at Michmash,

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

¹²I said, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to Jehovah; and I forced myself, and offered up the burnt-offering.

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 said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of Jehovah thy God which he commanded thee; for now would Jehovah have established thy kingdom over Israel for ever.

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

¹⁴But now thy kingdom shall not continue: Jehovah has sought him a man after his own heart, and Jehovah has appointed him ruler over his people; for thou hast not kept what Jehovah commanded thee.

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

¹⁵And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were 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 that were found with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin; and the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

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

¹⁷And the ravagers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned the way of Ophrah, into the land of Shual;

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

¹⁸and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and the other company turned the way to the district that looks over the ravine of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

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

¹⁹Now there was no smith found throughout the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears.

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

²⁰And all Israel went down to the Philistines, every man to get his ploughshare, and his hoe, and his axe, and his sickle sharpened,

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

²¹when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set 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 came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan; but with Saul and with Jonathan his son there was found.

²³Zvino boka ravarwi vavaFirisitia rakabuda kumupata weMikimashi.

²³And a garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.