¹Zvino Soromoni wakati apedza kuvaka imba yaJehovha, neimba yamambo, nezvose Soromoni zvaakanga achida kuita,

¹It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,

²Jehovha akazviratidza kuna Soromoni rwechipiri, sezvaakazviratidza kwaari paGibhiyoni.

²that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

³Jehovha akati kwaari, Ndakanzwa kunyengetera kwako nokukumbira kwako kwawakaita pamberi pangu; ndakatsaura imba iyi yawakavaka, kuti ndiise zita rangupo nokusingaperi; meso angu nomoyo wangu zvichavapo nguva dzose.

³Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

⁴Kana uriwe, kana ukafamba pamberi pangu sababa vako Dhavhidhi nomoyo usinganyengeri, nokururama, ukaita zvose zvandakakuraira ukachengeta zvandatema nezvandatonga,

⁴As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

⁵ipapo ini ndichasimbisa chigaro chako choushe pakati paIsiraeri nokusingaperi, sezvandakapikira baba vako Dhavhidhi, ndichiti, Haungashaiwi munhu uchagara pachigaro choushe chaIsiraeri,

⁵then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, according as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.’

⁶Asi kana mukatsauka pakunditevera, imwi kana vana venyu, mukasachengeta mirairo yangu nezvandatema zvandakaisa pamberi penyu, asi mukandoshumira vamwe vamwari, mukanamata kwavari;

⁶But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

⁷ipapo ndichaparadza Isiraeri panyika yandakavapa; neimba iyi yandakatsaurira zita rangu, ndichairashira kure ndirege kuiona, vaIsiraeri vachava shumo nechiseko pakati pavanhu vose;

⁷then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

⁸uye imba iyi kunyange yakakwirira ikadai, vose vanopfuura nayo vachakanuka nokuridza muridzo, vachiti, Jehovha wakaitireiko kudai nenyika ino uye neimba ino?

⁸Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?’

⁹Vachapindura, vachiti, nekuti vakasiya Jehovha Mwari wavo, wakange abudisa madzibaba avo munyika yeEgipita, vakanamatira vamwe vamwari, vakanamata kwavari, nokuvashumira; saka Jehovha wakavapinza panjodzi idzi dzose.

⁹and they shall answer, ‘Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’”

¹⁰Makore ana makumi maviri akati apera, Soromoni aakavaka nawo dzimba idzi mbiri, iyo imba yaJehovha neimba yamambo;

¹⁰It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king’s house

¹¹(zvino Hiramu mambo weTire wakange atsvakira Soromoni misidhari; nemisipiresi, nendarama, nezvose zvaakanga achida), mambo Soromoni akapa Hiramu maguta ana makumi maviri panyika yeGarire.

¹¹(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

¹²Hiramu akabva Tire kuzoona maguta aakanga apiwa naSoromoni, asi haana kumufadza.

¹²Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.

¹³Akati, Maguta kunyiko awa awandipa, hama yangu? Akatumidza nyika yeKabhuri kusvikira zuva ranhasi.

¹³He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.

¹⁴Hiramu akatumira mambo matarenda endarama ane zana namakumi maviri.

¹⁴Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.

¹⁵Zvino ndiro shoko rechibharo chakarairwa namambo Soromoni, kuzovaka imba yaJehovha, neimba yake, neMiro, norusvingo rweJerusaremu, neHazori, neMegidho, neGezeri.

¹⁵This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

¹⁶Farao mambo weEgipita wakange andokunda Gezeri, akaripisa nomoto, akauraya vaKanani vakanga vagere muguta, akaripa mukunda wake, mukadzi waSoromoni.

¹⁶Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

¹⁷Soromoni akavaka Gezeri, neBhe- tihoroni rezasi,

¹⁷Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,

¹⁸naBharati, neTamari, murenje munyika iyo,

¹⁸and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,

¹⁹namaguta ose amatura aSoromoni, namaguta engoro dzake, namaguta avatasvi vamabhiza ake, nezvose Soromoni zvaaida kuzvivakira paJerusaremu, napaRebhanoni, napanyika yose yakanga yakabatwa naye.

¹⁹and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

²⁰Kuvanhu vose vakanga vasara vavaAmori, navaHeti, navaPerezi, navaHivhi navaJebhusi, vakanga vasi vana vaIsiraeri;

²⁰As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;

²¹navana vavo vakanga vasara panyika shure kwavo, ivo vana vaIsiraeri vakanga vasingagoni kuvaparadza chose kuna ivavo Soromoni wakaraira chibharo chavaranda kusvikira nhasi.

²¹their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.

²²Asi Soromoni haana kuita varanda pakati pavana vaIsiraeri, asi ivo vaiva varwi vake, navabatiri vake, namachinda ake, navakuru vake, navarairi vengoro dzake, navatasvi vamabhiza ake.

²²But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

²³Ndivo vaiva vatariri vakuru vamabasa aSoromoni, vaiva namazana mashanu namakumi mashanu, vairairira vanhu vaibata basa.

²³These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.

²⁴Zvino mukunda waFarao wakabva kuguta raDhavhidhi, akaenda kuimba yake, yaakanga avakirwa naSoromoni; ipapo akavaka Miro.

²⁴But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then he built Millo.

²⁵Katatu pagore Soromoni waibayira zvipiriso zvinopiswa nezvipiriso zvokuyananisa pamusoro pearitari yaakanga avakira Jehovha, akapisa zvinonhuhwira pamwechete nazvo paaritari yakanga iri pamberi paJehovha. Naizvozvo akapedza imba.

²⁵Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh three times a year, burning incense with them, on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

²⁶Mambo Soromoni wakavakawo zvikepe zvizhinji paEZiyonigebheri, pedo neEroti, pamahombekombe eGungwa Dzvuku, panyika yaEdhomu.

²⁶King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds , in the land of Edom.

²⁷Hiramu akatuma nezvikepe izvo varanda vake, vaiva vafambisi vezvikepe vaiziva gungwa kwazvo, pamwechete navaranda vaSoromoni.

²⁷Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

²⁸Vakasvika Ofiri, vakatorapo ndarama yakasvika matarenda ana mazana mana namakumi maviri vakauya nayo kuna mambo Soromoni.

²⁸They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.