¹Zvino Mweya waMwari wakauya pamusoro paAzaria mwanakomana waOdhedhi;

¹The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded:

²akabuda kundosangana naAsa, akati kwaari, Nditeererei imi, Asa navaJudha navaBhenjamini mose; Jehovha anemi, kana imwi munaye; kana mukamutsvaka achawanikwa nemi; asi kana mukamurasha, iye achakurashawo.

²and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

³Zvino nguva huru vaIsiraeri vakanga vasina Mwari wechokwadi, kana mupristi anodzidzisa, kana murayiro;

³Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

⁴asi vakati vachitendeukira kuna Jehovha Mwari waIsiraeri pakutambudzika kwavo, nokumutsvaka, iye akawanikwa navo.

⁴But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

⁵Zvino nenguva iyo vaibuda novaipinda vakanga vagere panyika idzo, vaiva pakutambudzika kukuru.

⁵In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.

⁶Vaiparadzana, rumwe rudzi ruchiparadza rumwe, rimwe guta richiparadza rimwe; nekuti Mwari aivatambudza nenhamo dzose.

⁶They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.

⁷Asi ivai nesimba, maoko enyu ngaarege kushaiwa simba; nekuti basa renyu richapiwa mubayiro.

⁷But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.”

⁸Zvino Asa akati achinzwa mashoko awa, nezvakaporofitiwa nomuporofita Odhedhi, ndokutsunga moyo, akabvisa zvainyangadza panyika yose yaJudha naBenjamini, napamaguta aakanga akunda panyika yamakomo yaEfuremu; akavandudza aritari yaJehovha, yakanga iri pamberi peberere raJehovha.

⁸When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.

⁹Ipapo akaunganidza vaJudha, navaBhenjamini vose, navatorwa vakanga vagere pakati pavo vaibva kuna Efuremu, naManase, naSimioni, nekuti vazhinji vaibva kuna Isiraeri vakauya kwaari, pakuona kwavo kuti Jehovha Mwari wake anaye.

⁹He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

¹⁰Naizvozvo vakaungana paJerusaremu nomwedzi wechitatu, negore regumi namashanu rokubata ushe kwaAsa.

¹⁰So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

¹¹Vakabayira Jehovha zuva irero zvimwe zvavakanga vapamba vakauya nazvo, zvaiti: Nzombe dzina mazana manomwe, namakwai ane zviuru zvinomwe.

¹¹They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep.

¹²Vakazvisunga kutsvaka Jehovha Mwari wamadzibaba avo nemoyo yavo yose uye nemweya yavo yose;

¹²They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

¹³uye kuti ani naani asingatsvaki Jehovha Mwari waIsiraeri aurawe, kana ari muduku kana ari mukuru, kana mukadzi kana murume.

¹³and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

¹⁴Vakapika kuna Jehovha nenzwi guru, nokupururudza, nehwamanda uye nemimanzi.

¹⁴They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

¹⁵VaJudha vose vakafara nokupika uku; nekuti vakanga vapika nemoyo yavo yose, nokumutsvaka nokuda kwavo kose; iye akawanikwa navo; Jehovha ndokuvapa zororo kumativi ose.

¹⁵All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yahweh gave them rest all around.

¹⁶Akabvisawo Maaka mai vamambo Asa, pauhosi hwavo; nekuti vakanga vaitira Ashera chifananidzo chinonyangadza; Asa akaparadza chifananidzo chavo, akachikuyakuya, ndokuchipisa parukova Kidhironi.

¹⁶Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

¹⁷Asi matunhu akakwirira haana kubviswa pakati paIsiraeri; kunyange zvakadaro moyo waAsa wakange wakarurama kwazvo mazuva ake ose.

¹⁷But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

¹⁸Akaisa mumba maMwari zvinhu zvakanga zvatsaurirwa Mwari nababa vake, nezvakanga zvatsaurwa naiye amene, sirivha, nendarama, nemidziyo.

¹⁸He brought into God’s house the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

¹⁹Kurwa hakuna kuzovapo kusvikira pagore ramakumi matatu namashanu rokubata ushe kwaAsa.

¹⁹There was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.