¹Zvino nenguva iyo Abhija mwanakomana waJerobhoamu akarwara.

¹At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

²Jerobhoamu akati kumukadzi wake, Simuka hako, ushandure nguvo dzako, kuti urege kuzikamwa kuti ndiwe mukadzi waJerobhoamu, ugoenda Shiro; tarira, muporofita Ahija uripo, iye wakadeya kutaura pamusoro pangu, kuti ndizova mambo wavanhu ava.

²Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, that you won’t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Go to Shiloh. Behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.

³Uende nezvingwa zvine gumi, nezvingwa zviduku, nechidende chouchi, uzviise kwaari; iye uchakuudza zvichaitirwa mwana.

³Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”

⁴Mukadzi waJerobhoamu akaita saizvozvo, akasimuka, akaenda Shiro, akasvika paimba yaAhija. Zvino Ahija wakange asingagoni kuona, nekuti meso ake akanga owonera madzedzerere nemhaka yokukwegura kwake.

⁴Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

⁵Zvino Jehovha akati kuna Ahija, Tarira, mukadzi waJerobhoamu unouya kuzokubvunza pamusoro pomwanakomana wake, nekuti unorwara; unofanira kutaura zvokuti nezvokuti kwaari, nekuti kana achipinda, uchazviita somumwe mukadzi.

⁵Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”

⁶Zvino Ahija wakati achinzwa kufamba kwetsoka dzake, achipinda pamukova, akati, Chipinda hako, iwe mukadzi waJerobhoamu, unozviitireiko somumwe? nekuti ndatumwa kwauri namashoko anorwadza moyo.

⁶It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, “Come in, you wife of Jeroboam! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.

⁷Enda, uudze Jerobhoamu, uti, Zvanzi naJehovha Mwari walsiraeri: Ndakakukudza pakati pavanhu, ndikakuita mutungamiriri wavanhu vangu vaIsiraeri,

⁷Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,

⁸ndikabvarura ushe, ndikahubvisa paimba yaDhavhidhi, ndikahupa iwe; asi iwe hauna kuva saDhavhidhi muranda wangu, waichengeta mirairo yangu, akanditevera nomoyo wake wose, achiita zvakanaka zvoga pameso angu;

⁸and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

⁹asi iwe wakaita zvakaipa kupfuura vose vakakutangira, ukandozviitira vamwe vamwari nemifananidzo yakaumbwa, kuti unditsamwise; ukandirashira shure komusana wako.

⁹but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:

¹⁰Naizvozvo, tarira, ndichaitira imba yaJerobhoamu zvakaipa; ndichaparadza kuna Jerobhoamu vana vakomana vose, vaduku navakuru kuvaIsiraeri, nditsvaire chose imba yaJerobhoamu, somunhu unotsvaira marara kusvikira abva ose.

¹⁰therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, or, male he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.

¹¹Ani naani weimba yaJerobhoamu unofira paguta uchadyiwa nembwa; unofira kusango uchadyiwa neshiri dzokudenga; nekuti Jehovha wakataura saizvozvo.

¹¹He who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and he who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for Yahweh has spoken it.”’

¹²Naizvozvo iwe, simuka uende kumba kwako; kana tsoka dzako dzichipinda paguta, mwana uchafa.

¹²Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

¹³Valsiraeri vose vachamuchema, vakamuviga; nekuti ndiye oga waJerobhoamu uchasvika pahwiro, nekuti maari makawanikwa chinhu chakanaka chakafadza Jehovha Mwari waIsiraeri, paimba yaJerobhoamu.

¹³All Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

¹⁴Jehovha uchazvimutsirawo mambo kuvaIsiraeri, uchaparadza imba yaJerobhoamu nomusi uyo. Nomusi uyo here? Zvotoitwa zvino.

¹⁴Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is day! What? Even now.

¹⁵Nekuti Jehovha ucharova Isiraeri, sorutsanga runozununguswa mumvura; uchadzura Isiraeri panyika ino yakanaka, yaakapa madzibaba avo, nokuvaparadzira mhiri kwerwizi; nekuti vakazviitira matanda okunamata nawo vakatsamwisa Jehovha.

¹⁵For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.

¹⁶Uchaisa Isiraeri kuvavengi nokuda kwezvivi zvaJerobhoamu, zvaakaita iye, nezvaakatadzisa Isiraeriwo nazvo.

¹⁶He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”

¹⁷Zvino mukadzi waJerobhoamu akasimuka, akaenda, akasvika Tiriza; wakati achisvika pachikumbaridzo cheimba, mwana akafa.

¹⁷Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

¹⁸VaIsiraeri vose vakamuviga, vakamuchema, sezvakanga zvarehwa naJehovha nomuromo womuranda wake muporofita Ahija.

¹⁸All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

¹⁹Zvino mamwe mabasa aJerobhoamu, kurwa kwake, nokubata kwake ushe, tarirai zvakanyorwa mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aIsiraeri.

¹⁹The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

²⁰Mazuva okubata ushe kwaJerobhoamu akanga ari makore makumi maviri namaviri; akavata namadzibaba ake, Nadhabhi mwanakomana wake, akamutevera paushe.

²⁰The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

²¹Zvino Rehobhoamu mwanakomana waSoromoni, wakabata ushe hwaJudha. Rehobhoamu wakange ana makore makumi mana nerimwe pakutanga kwake kubata ushe, akabata ushe makore ane gumi namanomwe paJerusaremu, iro guta rakanga ratsaurwa naJehovha pakati pamarudzi ose alsiraeri, kuti aise zita rakepo. Zita ramai vake rakanga riri Naama muAmoni.

²¹Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

²²Judha akaita zvakaipa pameso aJehovha; vakamutsa shungu dzake nezvivi zvavo zvavakanga vachiita, vakapfuura zvose zvakaitwa namadzibaba avo.

²²Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

²³Nekuti naivo vakazvivakira matunhu akakwirira, neshongwe, namatanda okunamata nawo pazvikomo zvose zvakakwirira, napasi pemiti yose mitema.

²³For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

²⁴Vasodhomi vakanga varipowo panyika; ivo vakaita nemitowo yokunyangadza kose kwendudzi dzakanga dzadzingwa naJehovha pamberi pavana vaIsiraeri.

²⁴and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.

²⁵Zvino pagore rechishanu ramambo Rehobhoamu, Shishaki mambo weEgipita akakwira kuzorwa naJerusaremu;

²⁵It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

²⁶akatora fuma yeimba yaJehovha, nefuma yeimba yamambo; akazvitora zvose, akatorawo nhovo duku dzose dzendarama dzakanga dzaitwa naSoromoni.

²⁶and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

²⁷Ipapo mambo Rehobhoamu akaita panzvimbo yadzo nhovo duku dzendarira, akadziisa pamaoko avakuru vavarindi, vairinda mukova weimba yamambo.

²⁷King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.

²⁸Zvino nguva dzose kana mambo achipinda mumba maJehovha, varindi vaidzibata, ndokudzidzoserazve mumba mavarindi.

²⁸It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

²⁹Mamwe mabasa aRehobhoamu, nezvose zvaakaita, hazvina kunyorwa here mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aJudha.

²⁹Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

³⁰Asi kurwa kwaivapo nguva dzose pakati paRehobhoamu naJerobhoamu.

³⁰There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

³¹Rehobhoamu akavata namadzibaba ake, akavigwa kunamadzibaba ake muguta raDhavhidhi; zita ramai vake rakanga riri Naama muAmoni. Abhija mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.

³¹Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.