¹Zvino ushe hwaRehobhoamu hwakati hwasimbiswa, iye ava nesimba, akarasha murayiro waJehovha, navaIsiraeri vose pamwechete naye.

¹And it came to pass when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and when he had become strong, [that] he forsook the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him.

²Zvino pagore rechishanu ramambo Rehobhoamu, Shishaki mambo weEgipita akasvika kuzorwa neJerusaremu, nekuti vakanga vatadzira Jehovha,

²And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, because they had transgressed against Jehovah, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

³ane ngoro dzine chiuru chimwe namazana maviri, navatasvi vamabhiza vane zviuru zvina makumi matanhatu, navanhu vakabva naye Egipita, vakanga vasingagoni kuverengwa, vaiti: vaRubhimi, navaSukimi, navaItiopia.

³with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen; and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: Libyans, Sukkites, and Ethiopians.

⁴Akakunda maguta akakombwa aJudha, akasvika Jerusaremu.

⁴And he took the fortified cities that belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

⁵Zvino Shemaya muporofita akasvika kuna Rehobhoamu nokumachinda aJudha akanga akaungana paJerusaremu nemhaka yaShishaki, akati kwavari, Zvanzi naJehovha, Mandirasha, saka ndakakuregeraiwo paruoko rwaShishaki.

⁵And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and [to] the princes of Judah that had gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus saith Jehovah: Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

⁶Ipapo machinda aIsiraeri namambo vakazvininipisa, vakati, Jehovha akarurama.

⁶And the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous.

⁷Zvino Jehovha akati achiona kuti vazvininipisa, shoko raJehovha rikasvika kuna Shemaya, richiti, Vazvininipisa, handingavaparadzi, asi ndichavapa kakurwira; kutsamwa kwangu hakungadururwi pamusoro peJerusaremu noruoko rwaShishaki.

⁷And when Jehovah saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Jehovah came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them, but I will grant them a little deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

⁸Kunyange zvakadaro vachava varanda vake; kuti vazive kuti zvakadini kundishumira ini nokushumira ushe bwenyika dzimwe.

⁸Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

⁹Naizvozvo Shishaki mambo weEgipita akandorwa neJerusaremu, akatora fuma yeimba yaJehovha, nefuma yeimba yamambo; akazvitora zvose; akatorawo nhovo duku dzose dzendarama dzakaitwa naSoromoni.

⁹And Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house; he took away all; and he took away the shields of gold that Solomon had made.

¹⁰Ipapo mambo Rehobhoamu akaita panzvimbo yazvo nhovo duku dzendarira, akadziisa pamaoko avakuru vavarindi, vairinda mukova weimba yamambo.

¹⁰And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the couriers who kept the entrance of the king's house.

¹¹Zvino nguva dzose kana mambo achipinda mumba maJehovha, varindi vaidzibata, ndokudzidzoserazve mumba mavarindi.

¹¹And it was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of Jehovah, the couriers came and fetched them, and brought them again into the chamber of the couriers.

¹²Zvino akati azvininipisa, kutsamwa kwaJehovha kukabviswa kwaari, akasaparadzwa chose; uyezve, kuna Judha zvimwe zvakanaka zvakawanikwa.

¹²And when he humbled himself, the anger of Jehovah turned away from him, that he would not destroy him altogether; and also in Judah there were good things.

¹³Nokudaro mambo Rehobhoamu akazvisimbisa paJerusaremu, akabata ushe; nekuti Rehobhomu akanga ane makore makumi mana nerimwe pakutanga kwake kubata ushe, akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore ane gumi namanomwe, iro guta rakanga ratsaurwa naJehovha pamarudzi ose alsiraeri, kuti aise zita rakemo; zita ramai vake rakanga riri Naama muAmoni.

¹³And king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

¹⁴Akaita zvakaipa, nekuti haana kushingaira kutsvaka Jehovha.

¹⁴And he did evil, for he applied not his heart to seek Jehovah.

¹⁵Zvino mabasa aRehobhoamu, okutanga nookupedzisira, haana kunyorwa here mumashoko omuporofita Shemaya, noomuoni Idho, mazita amadziteteguru achiverengwawo? Zvino kurwa kwakanga kuripo pakati paRehobhoamu naJerobhoami nguva dzose.

¹⁵And the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the words of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer, in the genealogical registers? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

¹⁶Rehobhoamu akavata namadzibaba ake, akavigwa muguta raDhavhidhi; Abhija mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.

¹⁶And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. And Abijah his son reigned in his stead.