¹Pagore regumi namasere ramambo Jerobhoami, Abhija akatanga kubata ushe hwaJudha.

¹In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

²Akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore matatu; zita ramai vake rakanga riri Mikaya, mukunda waUrieri weGibhiya. Kurwa kukavapo pakati paAbhija naJerobhoami.

²He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

³Abhija akarwa ane hondo yavarwi dzaiva mhare, varume vakatsaurwa vane zviuru mazana mana; Jerobhoamiwo akagadzira hondo kuzorwa naye, ana varume vakatsaurwa vane zviuru zvina mazana masere, vaiva varume vane simba noumhare.

³And Abijah began the war with an army of men of war, four hundred thousand chosen men; and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, mighty men of valour.

⁴Abhija akamira pamusoro pegomo rainzi Zemaraimi, raiva panyika yamakomo yaEfuremu, akati, Ndinzwei, Jerobhoami navaIsiraeri vose!

⁴And Abijah stood up on the top of mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam, and all Israel!

⁵Ko hamufaniri kuziva here kuti Jehovha Mwari walsiraeri akapa Dhavhidhi ushe hwaIsiraeri nokusingaperi, iye navanakomana vake nesungano yomunyu?

⁵Ought ye not to know that Jehovah the God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, to him and to his sons [by] a covenant of salt?

⁶Asi Jerobhoami mwanakomana waNebhati, muranda waSoromoni mwanakomana waDhavhidhi, akasimuka akamukira ishe wake.

⁶But Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord.

⁷Kukaunganira kwaari vanhu vakaipa, vakaisvoipa, vakazvisimbisa kundorwa naRehobhoamu mwanakomana waSoromoni, iye Rehobhoamu achiri muduku ano moyo unotya, asingagoni kurwa navo.

⁷And vain men, sons of Belial, gathered to him and strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, and Rehoboam was young and faint-hearted, and did not shew himself strong against them.

⁸Zvino munoda kurwa novushe bwaJehovha bwuri mumaoko avanakomana vaDhavhidhi; zvamuri vanhu vazhinji, mune mhuru dzendarama dzakaitwa naJerobhoami kuti vave vamwari venyu.

⁸And now ye think to shew yourselves strong against the kingdom of Jehovah in the hand of the sons of David; and ye are a great multitude, and ye have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods.

⁹Hamuna kudzinga here vapristi vaJehovha, vanakomana vaAroni, navaRevhi, imwi mukazvitsaurira vapristi netsika dzavanhu vedzimwe nyika? Naizvozvo Ani naani anouya kuzvitsaurira Mwari ane nzombe imwe namakondobwe manomwe, iye angava mupristi wavamwari vasati vari vamwari.

⁹Have ye not cast out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests as the peoples of the lands? whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, he becomes a priest of what is not God.

¹⁰Asi kana tirisu, Jehovha ndiMwari wedu, hatina kumurasha; isu tina vapristi vanoshumira Jehovha, ivo vanakomana vaAroni, navaRevhi pamabasa avo.

¹⁰But as for us, Jehovah is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests that serve Jehovah are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites are at their work:

¹¹Ndivo vanopisira Jehovha zvipiriso zvinopiswa nezvinonhuhwira mangwanani ose namadekwana ose; nezvingwa zvokuratidza vanozvironga patafura yakaisvonaka; nechigadziko chendarama nemwenje yacho, kuvhenekera madekwana ose; nekuti tinochengeta zvatakarairwa naJehovha Mwari wedu; asi imwi makamurasha.

¹¹and they burn to Jehovah every morning and every evening burnt-offerings and sweet incense; the loaves also are set in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with its lamps to burn every evening: for *we* keep the charge of Jehovah our God; but *ye* have forsaken him.

¹²Zvino tarirai, Mwari anesu achititungamirira, navapristi vake vane hwamanda dzokuridza nadzo, kuti vakuridzirei mhere imi. Nhandi vana vaIsiraeri, regai kurwa naJehovha Mwari wamadzibaba enyu; nekuti hamungakundi.

¹²And behold, we have God with us at our head, and his priests, and the loud-sounding trumpets to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, do not fight with Jehovah the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

¹³Asi Jerobhoami akaisa vavandiri kuti vavakombe necheshure kwavo; zvino ivo vakava pamberi paJudha, navavandiri vakanga vari shure kwavo.

¹³But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; and they were before Judah, and the ambush behind them.

¹⁴Zvino vaJudha vakati vachicheuka, vakaona kurwa mberi kwavo neshure kwavo; vakachema kuna Jehovha, vapristi vakaridza hwamanda.

¹⁴And Judah looked back, and behold, they had the battle in front and behind; and they cried to Jehovah, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

¹⁵Ipapo vanhu vaJudha vakaridza mhere; vakati varidza mhere, Mwari akaparadza Jerobhoami navaIsiraeri vose pamberi paAbhija naJudha.

¹⁵And the men of Judah gave a shout; and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

¹⁶Vana vaIsiraeri vakatiza pamberi paJudha, Mwari akavaisa mumaoko avo.

¹⁶And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.

¹⁷Abhija navanhu vake vakavauraya nokuuraya kukuru; naizvozvo varume vakatsaurwa vane zviuru zvina mazana mashanu vakaurawa pakati paIsiraeri.

¹⁷And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; and there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

¹⁸Vana vaIsiraeri vakamanikidzwa saizvozvo nenguva iyo, vana vaJudha vakakunda, nekuti vakavimba naJehovha, Mwari wamadzibaba avo.

¹⁸And the children of Israel were humbled at that time, and the children of Judah were strengthened, because they relied upon Jehovah the God of their fathers.

¹⁹Abhija akateverera Jerobhoami, akamutorera maguta, aiti: Bhetieri nemisha yaro, neJeshana nemisha yaro, neEfironi nemisha yaro.

¹⁹And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him: Bethel with its dependent villages, and Jeshanah with its dependent villages, and Ephron with its dependent villages.

²⁰Jerobhoami haana kuzova nesimbazve pamazuva aAbhija; Jehovha ndokumurova, akafa.

²⁰And Jeroboam did not recover strength again in the days of Abijah; and Jehovah smote him, and he died.

²¹Asi Abhija akazvisimbisa, akawana vakadzi vane gumi navana, akabereka vanakomana vana makumi maviri navaviri, navanasikana vane gumi navatanhatu.

²¹But Abijah strengthened himself, and took fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

²²Zvino mamwe mabasa aAbhija, netsika dzake, namashoko ake, zvakanyorwa padudziro yomuporofita Idho.

²²And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his sayings, are written in the treatise of the prophet Iddo.