¹Pagore regumi namasere ramambo Jerobhoami, Abhija akatanga kubata ushe hwaJudha.

¹In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

²Akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore matatu; zita ramai vake rakanga riri Mikaya, mukunda waUrieri weGibhiya. Kurwa kukavapo pakati paAbhija naJerobhoami.

²He reigned three years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

³Abhija akarwa ane hondo yavarwi dzaiva mhare, varume vakatsaurwa vane zviuru mazana mana; Jerobhoamiwo akagadzira hondo kuzorwa naye, ana varume vakatsaurwa vane zviuru zvina mazana masere, vaiva varume vane simba noumhare.

³Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.

⁴Abhija akamira pamusoro pegomo rainzi Zemaraimi, raiva panyika yamakomo yaEfuremu, akati, Ndinzwei, Jerobhoami navaIsiraeri vose!

⁴Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:

⁵Ko hamufaniri kuziva here kuti Jehovha Mwari walsiraeri akapa Dhavhidhi ushe hwaIsiraeri nokusingaperi, iye navanakomana vake nesungano yomunyu?

⁵Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

⁶Asi Jerobhoami mwanakomana waNebhati, muranda waSoromoni mwanakomana waDhavhidhi, akasimuka akamukira ishe wake.

⁶Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.

⁷Kukaunganira kwaari vanhu vakaipa, vakaisvoipa, vakazvisimbisa kundorwa naRehobhoamu mwanakomana waSoromoni, iye Rehobhoamu achiri muduku ano moyo unotya, asingagoni kurwa navo.

⁷There were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

⁸Zvino munoda kurwa novushe bwaJehovha bwuri mumaoko avanakomana vaDhavhidhi; zvamuri vanhu vazhinji, mune mhuru dzendarama dzakaitwa naJerobhoami kuti vave vamwari venyu.

⁸“Now you think to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and there are with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods.

⁹Hamuna kudzinga here vapristi vaJehovha, vanakomana vaAroni, navaRevhi, imwi mukazvitsaurira vapristi netsika dzavanhu vedzimwe nyika? Naizvozvo Ani naani anouya kuzvitsaurira Mwari ane nzombe imwe namakondobwe manomwe, iye angava mupristi wavamwari vasati vari vamwari.

⁹Haven’t you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves after the ways of the peoples of other lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no gods.

¹⁰Asi kana tirisu, Jehovha ndiMwari wedu, hatina kumurasha; isu tina vapristi vanoshumira Jehovha, ivo vanakomana vaAroni, navaRevhi pamabasa avo.

¹⁰“But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and we have priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work:

¹¹Ndivo vanopisira Jehovha zvipiriso zvinopiswa nezvinonhuhwira mangwanani ose namadekwana ose; nezvingwa zvokuratidza vanozvironga patafura yakaisvonaka; nechigadziko chendarama nemwenje yacho, kuvhenekera madekwana ose; nekuti tinochengeta zvatakarairwa naJehovha Mwari wedu; asi imwi makamurasha.

¹¹and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening: for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God; but you have forsaken him.

¹²Zvino tarirai, Mwari anesu achititungamirira, navapristi vake vane hwamanda dzokuridza nadzo, kuti vakuridzirei mhere imi. Nhandi vana vaIsiraeri, regai kurwa naJehovha Mwari wamadzibaba enyu; nekuti hamungakundi.

¹²Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper.”

¹³Asi Jerobhoami akaisa vavandiri kuti vavakombe necheshure kwavo; zvino ivo vakava pamberi paJudha, navavandiri vakanga vari shure kwavo.

¹³But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

¹⁴Zvino vaJudha vakati vachicheuka, vakaona kurwa mberi kwavo neshure kwavo; vakachema kuna Jehovha, vapristi vakaridza hwamanda.

¹⁴When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

¹⁵Ipapo vanhu vaJudha vakaridza mhere; vakati varidza mhere, Mwari akaparadza Jerobhoami navaIsiraeri vose pamberi paAbhija naJudha.

¹⁵Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it happened, that God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

¹⁶Vana vaIsiraeri vakatiza pamberi paJudha, Mwari akavaisa mumaoko avo.

¹⁶The children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.

¹⁷Abhija navanhu vake vakavauraya nokuuraya kukuru; naizvozvo varume vakatsaurwa vane zviuru zvina mazana mashanu vakaurawa pakati paIsiraeri.

¹⁷Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

¹⁸Vana vaIsiraeri vakamanikidzwa saizvozvo nenguva iyo, vana vaJudha vakakunda, nekuti vakavimba naJehovha, Mwari wamadzibaba avo.

¹⁸Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

¹⁹Abhija akateverera Jerobhoami, akamutorera maguta, aiti: Bhetieri nemisha yaro, neJeshana nemisha yaro, neEfironi nemisha yaro.

¹⁹Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its towns, and Jeshanah with its towns, and Ephron with its towns.

²⁰Jerobhoami haana kuzova nesimbazve pamazuva aAbhija; Jehovha ndokumurova, akafa.

²⁰Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. Yahweh struck him, and he died.

²¹Asi Abhija akazvisimbisa, akawana vakadzi vane gumi navana, akabereka vanakomana vana makumi maviri navaviri, navanasikana vane gumi navatanhatu.

²¹But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.

²²Zvino mamwe mabasa aAbhija, netsika dzake, namashoko ake, zvakanyorwa padudziro yomuporofita Idho.

²²The rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.