¹Zvino Jehoshafati akavata namadzibaba ake, akavigwa namadzibaba ake muguta raDhavhidhi; Jehoramu mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.

¹And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.

²Iye akanga ana vanin'ina, vaiva vanakomana vaJehoshafati, vaiti: Azaria, naJehieri, naZekariya, naAzaria, naMikaeri, naShefatia; ava vose vaiva vanakomana vaJehoshafati mambo waIsiraeri.

²And he had brethren, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

³Baba vavo vakavapa zvipo zvikuru zvesirivha, nendarama, nezvinhu zvinokosha, pamwechete namaguta akakombwa paJudha; asi ushe wakahupa Jehoramu, nekuti iye akanga ari wedangwe.

³And their father had given them great gifts of silver and of gold and of precious things, besides fortified cities in Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, for he was the firstborn.

⁴Zvino Jehoramu akati apinda paushe hwababa vake, ndokuzvisimbisa, akauraya vanin'ina vake vose nomunondo, navamwewo vamachinda aIsiraeri.

⁴And Jehoram established himself over the kingdom of his father, and strengthened himself; and he slew all his brethren with the sword, and [certain] also of the princes of Israel.

⁵Jehoramu akanga asvika makore makumi matatu namaviri pakutanga kwake kubata ushe; akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore masere.

⁵Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

⁶Akafamba nenzira yamadzimambo alsiraeri, sezvakaita imba yaAhabhi; nekuti mukunda waAhabhi akanga ari mukadzi wake; akaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha.

⁶And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the sight of Jehovah.

⁷Kunyange zvakadaro Jehovha akanga asingadi kuparadza imba yaDhavhidhi, nokuda kwesungano yaakanga aita naDhavhidhi, uye nekuti akanga amupikira kuti achamupa mwenje iye navana vake nguva dzose.

⁷But Jehovah would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he had promised to give to him always a lamp, and to his sons.

⁸Zvino namazuva ake vaEdhomu vakamukira vaJudha, vakazviitira mambo wavo.

⁸In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they set a king over themselves.

⁹Ipapo Jehoramu akaenda navakuru vake, ane ngoro dzake dzose naye; akamuka usiku, akaparadza vaEdhomu vakanga vakamukomba navakuru vengoro.

⁹And Jehoram went over with his captains, and all the chariots with him; and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites who had surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots.

¹⁰Naizvozvo vaEdhomu vakamukira vaJudha, kusvikira zuva ranhasi. Ipapo veRibhinawo vakamumukira nenguva iyo; nekuti akanga arasha Jehovha, Mwari wamadzibaba ake.

¹⁰But the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Jehovah the God of his fathers.

¹¹Akaitawo matunhu akakwirira pamakomo aJudha, akapatisa vagere Jerusaremu, nokutsausa vaJudha.

¹¹Moreover he made high places on the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah [thereto].

¹²Ipapo tsamba yakabva kumuporofita Eria, ikasvika kwaari, ichiti, Zvanzi naJehovha Mwari wababa vako Dhavhidhi, Zvausina kufamba nenzira dzababa vako Jehoshafati, kana nenzira dzaAsa mambo waJudha;

¹²And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

¹³asi wakafamba nenzira dzamadzimambo aIsiraeri, ukapatisa Judha navagere Jerusaremu, sezvakaita imba yaAhabhi, ukaurayawo vanin'ina vako vakanga vakanaka kupfuura iwe;

¹³but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, like the fornications of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren, thy father's house who were better than thyself:

¹⁴zvino tarira, Jehovha acharova vanhu vako, navana vako, navakadzi vako, nezvinhu zvako zvose, nenjodzi yakaipa;

¹⁴behold, Jehovah will smite with a great stroke thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance,

¹⁵iwe uchava nehosha yakaipa yomuura kusvikira ura hwako huchibuda kunze nemhaka yehosha iyo zuva rimwe nerimwe.

¹⁵and thyself with sore sicknesses, with a disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

¹⁶Zvino Jehovha akakurudzira mweya yavaFirisitia neyavaArabhia, vakanga vari kurutivi rwavaltiopia, kuzorwa naJehoramu;

¹⁶And Jehovah stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, who [are] near the Ethiopians;

¹⁷vakandorwa navaJudha, vakapinda nyika yavo nesimba, ndokutora nhumbi dzose dzavakawana mumba mamambo, navanakomana vake, navakadzi vake; naizvozvo haana kusarirwa nomwanakomana, kunyange nomumwe asi Jehoahazi, muduku wavanakomana vake vose.

¹⁷and they came up into Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was no son left him, except Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons.

¹⁸Shure kwaizvozvo zvose Jehovha akamurova muura hwake nehosha isingagoni kurapwa.

¹⁸And after all this, Jehovah smote him in his bowels with an incurable sickness.

¹⁹Zvino makore maviri akati apera, ura hwake hukabuda kunze nemhaka yourwere, akafa nehosha dzakaipa; vanhu vake vakasamupisira, sezvavakapisira madzibaba ake.

¹⁹And it came to pass, from day to day, and at the time when the second year was drawing to a close, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died in cruel sufferings. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

²⁰Akanga asvika makore makumi matatu namaviri pakutanga kwake kubata ushe; akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore masere; akaenda hake asingadikamwi, vakamuviga paguta raDhavhidhi, asi havana kumuviga pamarinda amadzimambo.

²⁰He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being regretted. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.