¹Zvino Samueri wakafa; vaIsiraeri vose vakaungana, vakamuchema, vakamuviga mumba make paRama. Dhavhidhi akasimuka, akaburukira kurenje reParani.

¹And Samuel died; and all Israel were gathered together, and lamented him; and they buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

²Zvino paMaoni pakanga pano munhu, waiva nefuma yake paKarimeri; munhu uyu wakange ari mukuru kwazvo, wakange ana makwai ane zviuru zvitatu, nembudzi dzine chiuru chimwe; iye wakange achiveura makwai ake paKarimeri.

²And there was a man at Maon, whose business was at Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep at Carmel.

³Zita romunhu uyu raiva Nabhari, uye zita romukadzi wake Abhigairi; mukadzi wakange akangwara, uye wakange akanaka kumeso; asi murume wakange ano moyo mukukutu, akaipa pamugarire wake; waive weimba yaKarebhi.

³And the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance; but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was a Calebite.

⁴Zvino Dhavhidhi wakanzwa kurenje kuti Nabhari wakange achiveura makwai ake.

⁴And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

⁵Dhavhidhi akatuma majaya ane gumi, Dhavhidhi akati kumajaya, Kwirai Karimeri, muende kuna Nabhari, mundomukwazisa nezita rangu.

⁵Then David sent out ten young men; and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.

⁶Mugoti kuna iye agere pakati pefuma yake, Rugare ngaruve nemi, rugare ngaruve neimba yenyu, uye rugare ngaruve pazvinhu zvose zvamunazvo.

⁶And thus shall ye say: Long life [to thee]! and peace be to thee, and peace be to thy house, and peace be to all that thou hast!

⁷Zvino ndakanzwa kuti muna vaveuri; vafudzi venyu vaiva nesu zvino, asi hatina kuvatambudza, uye havana kurashikirwa nechinhu nguva yose yavakagara paKarimeri.

⁷And now I have heard that thou hast shearers; now thy shepherds who were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there aught missed by them, all the while they were in Carmel.

⁸Bvunzai majaya enyu, vakuudzei; zvino majaya ngaanzwirwe tsitsi nemi, nekuti tinouya nezuva rakanaka; ipai henyu varanda venyu nomwanakomana wenyu Dhavhidhi chinhu chipi nechipi chamunacho.

⁸Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee. Therefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes; for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, what thy hand may find to thy servants, and to thy son David.

⁹Zvino majaya aDhavhidhi akati asvika, akaudza Nabhari mashoko iwayo ose nezita raDhavhidhi, vakanyarara havo.

⁹And David's young men came, and spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

¹⁰Ipapo Nabhari akapindura varanda vaDhavhidhi akati, Dhavhidhi ndianiko? Mazuva ano varanda vazhinji vanotiza vatenzi vavo.

¹⁰And Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master.

¹¹Ndingatora zvingwa zvangu, nemvura yangu, nenyama yangu yandakaurayira vaveuri vangu, ndizvipe varume vandisingazivi kuti vanobvekupiko here?

¹¹And shall I take my bread, and my water, and my flesh which I have killed for my shearers, and give [it] to men whom I know not whence they are?

¹²Naizvozvo majaya aDhavhidhi akapinduka hawo, akadzoka, akandomuudza mashoko iwayo ose.

¹²And David's young men turned their way, and went back, and came and reported to him according to all those words.

¹³Dhavhidhi akati kuvanhu vake, Mumwe nomumwe wenyu ngaasunge munondo wake; mumwe nomumwe akasunga munondo wake; naiye Dhavhidhiwo akasunga munondo wake; varume vanenge mazana mana vakatevera Dhavhidhi, vana mazana maviri vakasara panhumbi.

¹³And David said to his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword; and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage.

¹⁴Asi mumwe wamajaya wakandoudza Abhigairi, mukadzi waNabhari, akati, Tarirai, Dhavhidhi wakange atuma nhume, ari kurenje, kundokwazisa tenzi wedu; ivo vakavatuka kwazvo.

¹⁴And one of [Nabal's] young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to bless our master; and he has insulted them.

¹⁵Asi varume avo vaitiitira zvakanaka, hatina kutambudzwa navo; hatina kurashikirwa nechinhu mazuva ose atakafambidzana navo kusango.

¹⁵And the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we companied with them, when we were in the fields.

¹⁶Vakanga vakaita sorusvingo kwatiri usiku namasikati mazuva ose ataigara navo tichifudza makwai.

¹⁶They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them feeding the sheep.

¹⁷Naizvozvo zvino chizivai mufunge zvamungaita, nekuti tenzi wedu navose veimba yake vagara vafungirwa zvakaipa; nekuti munhu wakaisvoipa wakadaro, kuti hakuna munhu ungagona kutaura naye.

¹⁷And now know and consider what thou wilt do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household; and he is such a son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.

¹⁸Ipapo Abhigairi akakurumidza kutora zvingwa zvina mazana maviri, namatende maviri ewaini, namakwai mashanu akanga agadzirwa, nezviyero zvishanu zvezviyo zvakakangwa, namasumbu amazambiringa akawoma ane zana, namapundu amawonde ana mazana maviri, akazviisa pamusoro pembongoro.

¹⁸And Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skin-bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched [corn], and a hundred raisin-cakes, and two hundred fig-cakes, and laid them on asses.

¹⁹Akati kumajaya ake, Nditungamirirei, tarirai, ndinokuteverai. Asi haana kuudza murume wake Nabhari.

¹⁹And she said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

²⁰Zvino wakati achifamba akatasva mbongoro yake, akaburukira pamupata pegomo, Dhavhidhi navarume vake vakaburukirawo kwaari; iye akasangana navo.

²⁰And as she was riding on the ass, and coming down by the covert of the hill, behold, David and his men came down opposite to her; and she met them.

²¹Zvino Dhavhidhi wakange ati, Zvirokwazvo, ndaichengeta hangu zvinhu zvose zvomunhu uyu nhandu murenje, hakuna chinhu chimwe chake chakarasika; akanditsiva nezvakaipa pane zvakanaka.

²¹Now David had said, Surely, in vain have I kept all that this [man] had in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that was his; and he has requited me evil for good.

²²Mwari ngaarove vavengi vaDhavhidhi, arambe achidaro, kana ndikarega kunyange mwanakomana mumwechete kuna vose vaanavo ari mupenyu kusvikira mangwana.

²²So and more also do God to the enemies of David, if I leave of all that is his by the morning light any male.

²³Zvino Abhigairi wakati achiona Dhavhidhi, akakurumidza kuburuka pambongoro yake, akawira pasi nechiso chake pamberi paDhavhidhi, akakotamira pasi.

²³And when Abigail saw David, she hasted and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

²⁴Akawira patsoka dzake, akati, Mhosva ngaive kwandiri, ishe wangu, ndinokumbira kuti murandakadzi wenyu ataure nemi, munzwe mashoko omurandakadzi wenyu.

²⁴and fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, [upon] me let the iniquity be; but let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear the words of thy handmaid.

²⁵Ndinokumbira kuti ishe wangu arege hake kurangarira munhu uyu wakaisvoipa, iye Nabhari; nekuti sezita rake ndizvo zvaakaitawo iye, zita rake ndiNabhari, naiye ibenzi; asi ini murandakadzi wenyu, handina kuona majaya ashe wangu amakatuma.

²⁵Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; and I thy handmaid did not see the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

²⁶Naizvozvo zvino, ishe wangu, naJehovha mupenyu, uye nomweya wenyu mupenyu, zvaari Jehovha wakakudzivisai kuteura ropa nokuzvitsiva noruoko rwenyu, naizvozvo zvino vavengi venyu navanotsvaka kuitira ishe wangu zvakaipa, ngavave saNabhari.

²⁶And now, my lord, [as] Jehovah liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, seeing Jehovah has restrained thee from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

²⁷Zvino, ishe wangu, chipo ichi chamakavigirwa nomurandakadzi wenyu, ngachipiwe hacho majaya anotevera ishe wangu.

²⁷And now this blessing which thy bondmaid has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men that follow my lord.

²⁸Kangamwirai henyu kudarika komurandakadzi wenyu, nekuti zvirokwazvo Jehovha uchaitira ishe wangu imba yakasimba, nekuti ishe wangu unorwa hondo dzaJehovha; zvakaipa hazvingawanikwi kwamuri mazuva enyu ose.

²⁸I pray thee, forgive the transgression of thy handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a lasting house; because my lord fights the battles of Jehovah, and evil has not been found in thee all thy days.

²⁹Kunyange munhu akasimuka kukudzingirirai, nokutsvaka kukuurayai, mweya washe wangu ucharamba wakasungirwa pachisote chavapenyu vari kuna Jehovha Mwari wenyu, asi mweya yavavengi venyu uchaiposhera kure, ichiita seinobva muchikanda chechifuramabwe.

²⁹And if a man is risen up to pursue thee and to seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out from the hollow of the sling.

³⁰Zvino kana Jehovha azoitira ishe wangu zvose zvakanaka zvaakanga ataura pamusoro penyu, akakugadzai mukava mambo waIsiraeri,

³⁰And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah shall do to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning thee, and shall appoint thee ruler over Israel,

³¹murege kuzvidemba pamusoro pechinhu ichi, uye ishe wangu arege kuzvidya moyo, nekuti makateura ropa risine mhosva, kana nekuti ishe wangu wakazvitsiva; zvino kana Jehovha achinge aitira ishe wangu zvakanaka, murangarirewo murandakadzi wenyu.

³¹that this shall be no stumbling-block to thee, nor offence of heart for my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall deal well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.

³²Dhavhidhi akati kuna Abhigairi, Jehovha Mwari waIsiraeri ngaakudzwe, iye wakakutuma nhasi kuzosangana neni;

³²And David said to Abigail, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me.

³³nokungwara kwako ngakukudzwe, newewo ukudzwe, nekuti wakandidzivirira nhasi kuti ndirege kuteura ropa, nokuzvitsiva noruoko rwangu.

³³And blessed be thy discernment, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

³⁴Zvirokwazvo, naJehovha Mwari waIsiraeri mupenyu, iye wakandidzivirira kuti ndirege kukuitira zvakaipa, dai usina kukurumidza kuuya kuzosangana neni, Nabhari zvirokwazvo haazaisarirwa mangwana kana koedza nomwana mumwe womukomana.

³⁴But indeed, as Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, who has restrained me from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any male.

³⁵Naizvozvo Dhavhidhi akagamuchira paruoko rwake zvaakanga amuvigira, akati kwaari, Kwira hako norugare kumba kwako; tarira ndateerera inzwi rako, ndakunzwira tsitsi.

³⁵So David received of her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.

³⁶Abhigairi akasvika kuna Nabhari, akamuwana ari kumutambo mumba make, wakange wakafanana nomutambo wamambo ; moyo waNabhari wakange wakafara mukati make, nekuti wakange abatwa kwazvo; naizvozvo haana kumuudza chinhu, kunyange chiduku kana chikuru, kusvikira mangwana koedza.

³⁶And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

³⁷Zvino fume mangwana, waini yakati yabva kuna Nabhari, mukadzi wake akamurondedzera mashoko iwayo, moyo wake ukafa mukati make, akaita sebwe.

³⁷And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became [as] a stone.

³⁸Mazuva anenge gumi akati apera, Jehovha akarova Nabhari, akafa.

³⁸And it came to pass in about ten days that Jehovah smote Nabal, and he died.

³⁹Zvino Dhavhidhi wakati anzwa kuti Nabhari wafa, akati, Jehovha ngaakudzwe wakanditsiva pakuzvidzwa kwangu naNabhari, akadzivirira muranda wake kuti arege kuita zvakaipa; zvakaipa zvaNabhari Jehovha wakazvidzosera pamusoro wake. Ipapo Dhavhidhi akatuma nhume kuna Abhigairi kukumbira kuti ave mukadzi wake.

³⁹And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil; but Jehovah has returned Nabal's evil upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her as his wife.

⁴⁰Zvino varanda vaDhavhidhi vakati vachisvika kuna Abhigairi paKarimeri, vakataura naye vakati, Dhavhidhi wakatitumira kwauri kuzokutora uve mukadzi wake.

⁴⁰And the servants of David came to Abigail to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to thee, to take thee as his wife.

⁴¹Ipapo akasimuka, akakotamira pasi nechiso chake, akati, Tarirai murandakadzi wenyu, ndiri murandakadzi unoshambidza tsoka dzashe wangu.

⁴¹And she arose and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thy handmaid be a bondwoman to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

⁴²Abhigairi akakurumidza, akasimuka, akatasva mbongoro, akaenda navasikana vake vashanu; akatevera nhume dzaDhavhidhi, akava mukadzi wake.

⁴²And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

⁴³Dhavhidhi akawanawo Ahinowamu muJezereeri, ivo vose vaviri vakava vakadzi vake.

⁴³David had also taken Ahinoam of Jizreel; and they became, even both of them, his wives.

⁴⁴Zvino Sauro wakange akapa Pariti, mwanakomana waRaishi, waiva weGarimi, mukunda wake Mikari, mukadzi waDhavhidhi.

⁴⁴But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.