¹Zvino Ahitoferi wakati kuna Abhusaromu, Nditenderei zvino nditsaure varume vane zviuru zvine gumi nezviviri, ndisimuke, nditeverere Dhavhidhi usiku hwuno;

¹And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me, I pray, choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David to-night;

²ndimuvambe akaneta, asine simba, ndimutyise, vanhu vose vaanavo vatize; ini ndichauraya mambo oga.

²and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;

³Ipapo ndichadzosera vanhu vose kwamuri; kana mawana munhu mumwe wamunotsvaka, vanhu vose vachadzoka; naizvozvo vanhu vose vachava norugare.

³and I will bring back all the people to thee. The man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: all the people shall be in peace.

⁴Shoko iro rakafadza Abhusaromu navakuru vose vaIsiraeri.

⁴And the saying was right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

⁵Ipapo Abhusaromu akati, Danai Hushai muArikiwo, tinzwe zvaanotaura.

⁵And Absalom said, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and we will hear also what he says.

⁶Hushai wakati asvika kuna Abhusaromu, Abhusaromu akataura naye akati, Ahitoferi wataura zvokuti nezvokuti; zvino toita sezvaakataura here? Kana tisingafaniri kudaro, taura iwe.

⁶And Hushai came to Absalom, and Absalom spoke to him saying, Ahithophel has spoken after this manner: shall we carry out his word? If not, speak thou.

⁷Hushai akati kuna Abhusaromu, Zano ramapiwa nguva ino naAhitoferi harina kunaka.

⁷And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.

⁸Hushai akawedzera, akati, Munoziva baba venyu navanhu vavo, kuti vanhu voumhare, zvino vane shungu pamoyo pavo, sebere ratorerwa vana varo kusango; baba venyu munhu wokurwa, havangavati navanhu.

⁸And Hushai said, Thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are of exasperated spirit, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field; and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

⁹Tarirai, zvino vandovanda pabako, kana pamwe; zvino kana vamwe vakatanga kuurawa, ani nani unonzwa uchati, Vanhu, vanotevera Abhusaromu, vourawa.

⁹Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or some such place; and it will come to pass, when some of them fall at the first, whoever heareth it will say, There has been slaughter among the people that follow Absalom,

¹⁰Ipapo kunyange munhu wemhare, ano moyo wakafanana noweshumba, uchawora moyo, nekuti vaIsiraeri vose vanoziva kuti baba venyu imhare, naivo vavanavo vanhu voumharewo.

¹⁰and even the valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion shall utterly melt; for all Israel knows that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men.

¹¹Zvino zano rangu ndiro, kuti vaIsiraeri vose vaunganidzwe kwamuri, kubva paDhani kusvikira paBheerishebha, vawande sejecha riri pagungwa; nemiwo muende mumene kuhondo.

¹¹But I counsel that all Israel be speedily gathered to thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.

¹²Naizvozvo tichamuvamba paanenge achiwanikwa, tigomhara pamusoro pake somumharire weveta pasi; hatingasii kunyange mumwe wavo, kunyange ivo kunyange vanhu vavanavo.

¹²And we shall come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.

¹³Uye, kana vakapinda muguta, vaIsiraeri vose vangauya namabote kuguta iro, tirikwevere murwizi, kusvikira pachishaikwa kunyange ibwe rimwe duku.

¹³And if he withdraw into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the torrent, until there be not one small stone found there.

¹⁴Ipapo Abhusaromu navarume vose vaIsiraeri vakati, Zano raHushai muAriki rakanaka kukunda zano raAhitoferi. Nekuti Jehovha wakange atema kuti zano rakanaka raAhitoferi rikoneswe, kuti Jehovha apinze Abhusaromu panjodzi.

¹⁴And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. And Jehovah had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, in order that Jehovah might bring evil upon Absalom.

¹⁵Zvino Hushai akati kuna Zadhoki nokuna Abhiatari vapristi, Ahitoferi wakapa Abhusaromu navakuru vaIsiraeri zano rokuti nerokuti, asi ini ndakavapa zano rokuti nerokuti.

¹⁵And Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

¹⁶Naizvozvo zvino, tumai munhu pakarepo, audze Dhavhidhi, ati, Regai kuvata usiku hwuno kumazambuko erenje, asi munofanira kuyambuka, kuti mambo arege kumedzwa navanhu vose vaanavo.

¹⁶And now send quickly, and tell David saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

¹⁷Zvino Jonatani naAhimazi vakanga vari paEnirogeri; murandakadzi akaenda kundovaudza ivo vakandoudza mambo Dhavhidhi, nekuti havazaifanira kuonekwa vachipinda paguta.

¹⁷And Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; and the maid went and told them; and they went and told king David, for they might not be seen to come into the city.

¹⁸Asi mumwe mukomana wakavaona, akandoudza Abhusaromu; ivo vaviri vakakurumidza kuenda, vakasvika paimba yomumwe munhu paBhahurimu; iye wakange ane tsime paruvazhe rwake, ivo vakaburukiramo.

¹⁸But a lad saw them, and told Absalom. Then they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man at Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

¹⁹Mukadzi akatora chokufukidzira nacho, akachiwarira pamusoro pomuromo wetsime, akanika zviyo zvakatswiwa pamusoro pacho; hakune chinhu chakazozikamwa.

¹⁹And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn on it; and the thing was not known.

²⁰Zvino varanda vaAbhusaromu vakasvika kumukadzi kumba, vakati, Ahimaazi naJonatani varipiko? Mukadzi akati kwavari, Vayambuka rukova. Ivo vakavatsvaka, vakavashaiwa, vakadzokera Jerusaremu.

²⁰And Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone over the brook of water. And they sought and could not find [them], and returned to Jerusalem.

²¹Zvino vakati vabva, ivo vakabuda mutsime, vakandoudza mambo Dhavhidhi; vakati kuna Dhavhidhi, Simukai, mukurumidze kuyambuka mvura, nekuti Ahitoferi wakapa zano rokuti nerokuti pamusoro penyu.

²¹And it came to pass after they had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counselled against you.

²²Dhavhidhi akasimuka, navanhu vose vaakanga anavo, vakayambuka Joridhani; kwakati koedza mangwanani, kwakanga kusino mumwe wavo wakange achigere kuyambuka Joridhani.

²²Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over the Jordan; by the morning light there was not one of them missing that had not gone over the Jordan.

²³Zvino Ahitoferi wakati achiona kuti vakanga vasine hanya nezano rake, akaisa chigaro pamusoro pembongoro yake, akasimuka, akaenda kumba kwake kuguta rake, akaraira vose veimba yake, akazvisungirira, akafa, akavigwa muhwiro hwababa vake.

²³And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose and went to his house, to his city, and gave charge to his household, and hanged himself, and he died; and he was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

²⁴Zvino Dhavhidhi akasvika Mahanaimu. Abhusaromu akayambuka Joridhani, iye navarume vose valsiraeri, vaakanga anavo.

²⁴And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

²⁵Abhusaromu akagadza Amasa ave mutungamiriri wehondo panzvimbo yaJoabhu. Amasa wakange ari mwanakomana womunhu wainzi Jitira mulsiraeri, wakange apinda kuna Abhigairi, mukunda waNahashi, munin'ina waZeruya, amai vaJoabhu.

²⁵And Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of Joab; which Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Jithra the Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

²⁶VaIsiraeri naAbhusaromu vakadzika matende avo panyika yeGiriyadhi.

²⁶And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

²⁷Zvino Dhavhidhi wakati achisvika paMahanaimu, Shobhi mwanakomana waNahashi weRabha, wavana vaAmoni, naMakiri mwanakomana waAmieri weRodhebhari, naBharizirai muGiriyadhi weRogerimi,

²⁷And as soon as David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

²⁸vakauya nenhovo, nehari, nemidziyo yevhu, nezviyo, nebhari, noupfu, nezviyo zvakakangwa, nenyimo, nenyemba, nezvakakangwa,

²⁸brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched [corn], and beans, and lentils, and parched [pulse],

²⁹nouchi, namafuta, namakwai, namapundu omukaka, kuti Dhavhidhi navanhu vose vaakanga anavo vadye; nekuti vakati, Vanhu vane nzara, vaneta, vane nyota murenje.

²⁹and honey, and cream, and sheep, and cheese of kine to David, and to the people that were with him, to eat; for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.