¹Zvino Soromoni wakaunganidza vakuru vaIsiraeri, navakuru vose vamarudzi, iwo machinda edzimba dzamadzibaba avana vaIsiraeri, kuna mambo Soromoni paJerusaremu, akakwidza areka yesungano yaJehovha, ibve paguta raDhavhidhi, iro Ziyoni.

¹Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.

²Varume vose vaIsiraeri vakaungana kuna mambo Soromoni pamutambo pamwedzi weEtanimi, ndiwo mwedzi wechinomwe.

²All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

³Ipapo vakuru vose vaIsiraeri vakauya, vapristi vakasimudza areka.

³All the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

⁴Vakakwira neareka yaJehovha netende rokusangana, nemidziyo mitsvene yose yaiva muTende, vapristi navaRevhi vakakwira nayo.

⁴They brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these the priests and the Levites brought up.

⁵Mambo Soromoni, neungano yose yavaIsiraeri yakanga yaunganira kwaari, vakafamba naye pamberi peareka, vakabayira makwai nenzombe, zvakanga zvisingagoni kurahwa kana kuverengwa nokuwanda kwazvo.

⁵King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

⁶Ipapo vapristi vakagadzika areka yesungano yaJehovha panzvimbo yayo, panzvimbo tsvene yeimba, panzvimbo tsvene-tsvene, ipo panyasi pamapapiro amakerubhi.

⁶The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

⁷nekuti makerubhi akatambanudza mapapiro awo pamusoro penzvimbo yeareka, makerubhi akafukidza areka namatanda ayo nechokumusoro.

⁷For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

⁸Matanda akanga akareba; naizvozvo miromo yamatanda yakanga ichionekwa kana munhu ari panzvimbo tsvene pamberi penzvimbo pangataura Jehovha; asi akanga asingawonekwi nechokunze; achiripo kusvikira nhasi.

⁸The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day.

⁹Mukati meareka makanga musisine chinhu, asi mabwendefa maviri amabwe, akanga aiswamo naMozisi paHorebhu, nguva Jehovha yaakaita sungano nayo navana vaIsiraeri pakubuda kwavo panyika

⁹There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁰Zvino vapristi vakati vabuda panzvimbo tsvene, gore rikazadza imba yaJehovha,

¹⁰It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,

¹¹naizvozvo vapristi vakanga vasingagoni kumira pabasa nokuda kwegore; nekuti kubwinya kwaJehovha kwakazadza imba yaJehovha.

¹¹so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh.

¹²Ipapo Soromoni akati, Jehovha wakati, ndinoda kugara mukati merima guru.

¹²Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

¹³Zvirokwazvo, ndakakuvakirai imba pamungagara, nzvimbo mamungagara nokusingaperi.

¹³I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

¹⁴Zvino mambo akatendeudza chiso chake, akaropafadza ungano yose yaIsiraeri, ungano yose yaIsiraeri ikasimuka.

¹⁴The king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.

¹⁵Akati, Jehovha Mwari waIsiraeri ngaakudzwe, iye wakataura nomuromo wake naDhavhidhi baba vangu, akazvizadzisa noruoko rwake, achiti,

¹⁵He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

¹⁶Kubva pazuva randakabudisa vanhu vangu vaIsiraeri paEgipita, handina kutsaura guta rimwe pamarudzi ose aIsiraeri, pavangandivakira imba, kuti zita rangu rigarepo; asi ndakatsaura Dhavhidhi abate vanhu vangu vaIsiraeri.

¹⁶‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’

¹⁷Zvino Dhavhidhi baba vangu vakanga vachida kuvakira zita raJehovha Mwari walsiraeri imba.

¹⁷“Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

¹⁸Asi Jehovha wakati kuna Dhavhidhi baba vangu, Wakaita zvakanaka, zvawakanga uchida kuvakira zita rangu imba.

¹⁸But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

¹⁹Kunyange zvakadaro iwe haungavaki imba iyo, asi mwanakomana wako wauchabereka, ndiye uchavakira zita rangu imba.

¹⁹Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’

²⁰Zvino Jehovha wasimbisa shoko rake raakataura, nekuti ini ndamuka panzvimbo yaDhavhidhi baba vangu, ndikagara pachigaro choushe chaIsiraeri, sezvakapikira Jehovha, ndikavakira zita raJehovha Mwari waIsiraeri, imba.

²⁰Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

²¹Imomo ndakagadzirira areka nzvimbo, imo munesungano yaJehovha, yaakaita namadzibaba edu panguva yaakavabudisa panyika yeEgipita.

²¹There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

²²Zvino Soromoni akamira pamberi pearitari yaJehovha, pamberi peungano yose yalsiraeri, akatambanudzira maoko ake kudenga,

²²Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

²³akati, Jehovha, Mwari waIsiraeri, hakuna mumwe Mwari wakafanana nemwi kudenga kumusoro kana panyika pasi; munorangarira sungano nenyasha kuvaranda venyu, vanofamba pamberi penyu nomoyo wavo wose.

²³and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

²⁴Imi makaitira muranda wenyu Dhavhidhi baba vangu, sezvamakamupikira; makataura nomuromo wenyu, mukazviita noruoko rwenyu, sezvazvakaita nhasi.

²⁴who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

²⁵Naizvozvo zvino, Jehovha Mwari waIsiraeri, itirai muranda wenyu Dhavhidhi baba vangu sezvamakamupikira, muchiti, Haungashaiwi munhu uchagara pachigaro choushe chaIsiraeri pamberi pangu, kana vana vako vakangwarira kufamba kwavo, vakafamba pamberi pangu, sezvawakafamba iwe pamberi pangu.

²⁵Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’

²⁶Naizvozvo zvino, Mwari waIsiraeri, ndinokumbira kuti shoko renyu riitike, iro ramakataura kumuranda wenyu Dhavhidhi baba vangu.

²⁶“Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.

²⁷Ko mukati Mwari ungagara panyika here? Tarira, denga nokudenga-denga hazvingamuringani; ndoda imba ino yandakavaka!

²⁷But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

²⁸Kunyange zvakadaro, ivai nehanya nomunyengetero womuranda wenyu, nokukumbira kwake, Jehovha Mwari wangu, munzwe kudanidzira nokunyengetera komuranda wenyu, kwaanonyengetera pamberi penyu nhasi;

²⁸Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you this day;

²⁹meso enyu arambe achirindira imba ino usiku namasikati, nzvimbo iyi yamakataura pamusoro payo, muchiti, Zita rangu richagarapo; inzwai munyengetero womuranda wenyu waanozonyengetera akatarira kunzvimbo ino.

²⁹that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.

³⁰Inzwai kukumbira komuranda wenyu, nokwavanhu venyu vaIsiraeri, kana vachizonyengetera vakatarira kunzvimbo ino; donzwai henyu iko kumatenga, kwamunogara; zvino kana mukanzwa, muvakangamwire henyu.

³⁰Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.

³¹Kana munhu achinge atadzira waanogara naye, akapikiswa mhiko, akauya akapika pamberi pearitari yenyu muimba ino,

³¹“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swear before your altar in this house;

³²inzwai iko kudenga, muite, mururamisire varanda venyu, mupe wakaipa mhosva, arobwe pamusoro pomufambiro wake; asi mururamisire wakarurama, apiwe zvakafanira kururama kwake.

³²then hear in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

³³Kana vanhu venyu vaIsiraeri vachinge vakundwa navavengi vavo, nemhaka yokuti vakanga vakutadzirai; kana vakadzokerazve kwamuri, vakatenda zita renyu, vakanyengetera kwamuri nokukumbira muimba ino;

³³“When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house:

³⁴inzwai iko kudenga, mukangamwire zvivi zvavanhu venyu vaIsiraeri, muvadzoserezve kunyika yamakapa madzibaba avo.

³⁴then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.

³⁵Kana denga richinge razarirwa, mvura ikasanaya nemhaka yokuti vakanga vakutadzirai; kana vakanyengetera vakatarira kunzvimbo ino, vakatenda zita renyu, vakatendeuka pazvivi zvavo, nekuti munenge mavarova;

³⁵“When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:

³⁶inzwai iko kudenga, mukangamwire zvivi zvavaranda venyu, nezvevanhu venyu vaIsiraeri, nekuti munovadzidzisa nzira yakanaka yavanofanira kufamba nayo; munise mvura panyika iyo yamakapa vanhu venyu kuti ive nhaka yavo.

³⁶then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

³⁷Kana nzara ikavapo panyika, kana denda rikavapo, kana nyunje nokuvhuvha zvikavapo, nemhashu nehonye; kana vavengi vavo vakavakomba panyika ina maguta avo; kana nyatwa kana hosha ipi neipi ikavapo;

³⁷“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

³⁸kana munhu upi noupi, kana vanhu venyu vose vaIsiraeri vakanyengetera kana kukumbira, mumwe nomumwe achiziva kutambudzika kuri pamoyo pake, akatambanudzira maoko ake kuimba ino;

³⁸whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

³⁹inzwai henyu iko kudenga kwamunogara, mukangamwire, muite, muripire mumwe nomumwe zvakafanira mufambiro wake wose, iye wamunoziva moyo wake; nekuti imi, imwi moga, ndimi munoziva moyo yavana vavanhu vose;

³⁹then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)

⁴⁰kuti vakutyei mazuva ose oupenyu hwavo pachiso chenyika yamakapa madzibaba edu.

⁴⁰that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

⁴¹Zvino kana ari mutorwa, asati ari wavanhu venyu vaIsiraeri, kana akabva kunyika iri kure nokuda kwezita renyu;

⁴¹“Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name’s sake

⁴²nekuti vachazonzwa mukurumbira wezita renyu guru, noworuoko rwenyu rune simba, noruoko rwenyu rwakatambanudzwa kana akauya akanyengetera akatarira kuimba ino;

⁴²(for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house;

⁴³inzwai henyu iko kudenga kwamunogara, muitire mutorwa zvose sezvaanokumbira, kuti vanhu vose venyika vazive zita renyu, vakutyei, sezvinoita vanhu venyu vaIsiraeri, vazive kuti imba ino yandakavaka yakatumidzwa zita renyu.

⁴³hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

⁴⁴Kana vanhu venyu vakandorwa hondo navavengi vavo nenzira ipi neipi yamuchavatuma nayo, vakanyengetera kuna Jehovha vakatarira kuguta ramakatsaura, nokuimba yandakavakira zita renyu,

⁴⁴“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

⁴⁵inzwai henyu iko kudenga kunyengetera kwavo nokukumbira kwavo, muvaruramisire.

⁴⁵then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

⁴⁶Kana vakakutadzirai (nokuti hakuna munhu usingatadzi), mukavatsamwira, mukavakumikidza kuvavengi vavo, vakatapwa kunyika yavavengi vavo, kure kana pedo;

⁴⁶If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

⁴⁷kana vakazozvifunga kunyika kwavakatapirwa, vakadzokazve, vakakumbira kwamuri panyika yavatapi vavo, vachiti, Tatadza, taita zvakaipa, taita zvisakarurama;

⁴⁷yet if they shall repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’

⁴⁸kana vakadzokerazve kwamuri nomoyo wavo wose, nomweya wavo wose, panyika yavavengi vavo vakavatapa; kana vakanyengetera kwamuri vakatarira kunyika yavo, yamakapa madzibaba avo, kuguta ramakatsaurirwa nokuimba yandakavakira zita renyu.

⁴⁸if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:

⁴⁹Inzwai henyu kunyengetera kwavo nokukumbira kwavo iko kudenga kwamunogara, muvaruramisire ;

⁴⁹then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;

⁵⁰mu kangamwire vanhu venyu vakakutadzirai, nokudarika kwavo kose, kwavakadarika nako kwamuri; muvawanise tsitsi kunavakavatapa, kuti vavanzwire nyasha;

⁵⁰and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them

⁵¹nekuti ndivo vanhu venyu, nenhaka yenyu, yamakabudisa Egipita pakati pevira ramatare;

⁵¹(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);

⁵²meso enyu ngaawone kukumbira komuranda wenyu, nokukumbira kwavanhu venyu vaIsiraeri, kuti muvanzwe pakuchema kwavo kose kwamuri.

⁵²that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.

⁵³nekuti imwi Jehovha, makavatsaura kundudzi dzose dzenyika, vave nhaka yenyu, sezvamakataura nomuromo waMozisi muranda wenyu, nguva yamakabudisa madzibaba edu paEgipita.

⁵³For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”

⁵⁴Zvino Soromoni wakati apedza kunyengetera kuna Jehovha munyengetero uyu wose nokukumbira uku, akasimuka pamberi pearitari yaJehovha, paakanga akapfugama namabvi ake, maoko ake akatambanudzirwa kudenga.

⁵⁴It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.

⁵⁵Akamira akaropafadza ungano yose yaIsiraeri nenzwi guru, akati,

⁵⁵He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

⁵⁶Jehovha ngaakudzwe, wakapa vanhu vake kuzorora, sezvaakatipa zvose; hapana shoko rimwe pazvose zvakanaka zvaakatipikira rakakona, izvo zvaakatipikira nomuromo waMozisi muranda wake.

⁵⁶“Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

⁵⁷Jehovha wedu ngaave nesu, sezvaaiva namadzibaba edu; ngaarege kutisiya, kana kutirasha;

⁵⁷May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor forsake us;

⁵⁸kuti arerekese moyo yedu kwaari, tifambe panzira dzake dzose, tichengete mirairo yake, nezvaakatema, nezvaakatonga, izvo zvaakaraira madzibaba edu.

⁵⁸that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

⁵⁹Zvino mashoko awa andakakumbira nawo pamberi paJehovha, ngaagare pedo naJehovha Mwari wedu masikati nousiku, aruramisire muranda wake, navanhu vake vaIsiraeri, panodikamwa napo zuva rimwe nerimwe;

⁵⁹Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require;

⁶⁰kuti vanhu vose venyika vazive kuti Jehovha ndiye Mwari, hakuna mumwe.

⁶⁰that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God. There is none else.

⁶¹Naizvozvo moyo yenyu ive yakarurama kwazvo kuna Jehovha Mwari wedu, mufambe pane zvaakatema, nokuchengeta mirairo yake, sezvamunoita nhasi.

⁶¹“Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.”

⁶²Zvino mambo navalsiraeri vose pamwechete naye vakabayira zvibayiro pamberi paJehovha.

⁶²The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.

⁶³Soromoni akabayira zvipiriso zvokuyananisa, zvaakabayira Jehovha, nzombe dzine zviuru zvina makumi maviri nezviviri, namakwai ane zviuru zvine zana namakumi maviri. Naizvozvo mambo navana vaIsiraeri vose vakatsaurira Jehovha imba iyo.

⁶³Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand head of cattle, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh.

⁶⁴Nomusi uyo mambo akatsaurawo nzvimbo yapakati yoruvazhe rwakanga ruri pamberi peimba yaJehovha, nekuti ndipo paakabayira chipiriso chinopiswa, nechipiriso choupfu, namafuta ezvipiriso zvokuyananisa; nekuti aritari yendarira, yaiva pamberi paJehovha, yakanga iri duku kwazvo, isingagoni kuringana chipiriso chinopiswa, nechipiriso choupfu, namafuta ezvipiriso zvokuyananisa.

⁶⁴The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.

⁶⁵Naizvozvo Soromoni akatamba mutambo nguva iyo yose, navaIsiraeri vose pamwechete naye, vakaita ungano huru, kubva pavanopinda paHamati kusvikira parukova rweEgipita, pamberi paJehovha Mwari wedu, mazuva manomwe namazuva manomwezve ndiwo mazuva ane gumi namana.

⁶⁵So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.

⁶⁶Pazuva rorusere akaendisa vanhu, ivo vakatenda mambo, vakaenda kumatende avo nemoyo yakanga ichifara, ichifarira zvakanaka zvose zvakanga zvaitirwa Dhavhidhi muranda wake naIsiraeri vanhu vake naJehovha.

⁶⁶On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.