¹Zvino vagere Jerusaremu vakaita Ahazia, mwanakomana wake muduku, mambo panzvimbo yake, nekuti boka ravanhu, vakauya navaArabhia, vakanga vauraya vakuru vake vose. Naizvozvo Ahazia mwanakomana waJehoramu mambo waJudha, akabata ushe.

¹The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place; for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

²Ahazia akanga asvika makore makumi mana namaviri pakutanga kwake kubata ushe; akabata ushe paJerusaremu gore rimwe; zita ramai vake rakanga riri Ataria, mukunda waOmiri.

²Forty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

³Naiye akafamba nenzira dzeimba yaAhabhi; nekuti mai vake vaiva murairi wake pakuita zvakaipa.

³He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

⁴Akaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha sezvakaitwa naveimba yaAhabhi; nekuti baba vake vakati vafa, ndivo vaiva varairi vake, vakamuisa pakuparadzwa.

⁴He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

⁵Akafambawo sezvavakamuraira, akaenda naJehoramu mwanakomana waAhabhi mambo waIsiraeri, kundorwa naHazaeri mambo weSiria paRamotiGiriyadhi; vaSiria vakakuvadza Jehoramu.

⁵He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.

⁶Akadzokera Jezireeri kuzorapwa mavanga aakatemwa paRama, nguva yaakarwa naHazaeri mambo weSiria. Ipapo Azaria mwanakomana waJehoramu mambo waJudha, akaenda kundoona Jehoramu mwanakomana waAhabhi paJezireeri, nekuti akanga achirwara.

⁶He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

⁷Zvino kuparadzwa kwaAhazia kwakabva kuna Mwari, zvaakaenda kuna Joramu; nekuti akati asvikapo, akaenda naJehoramu kundorwa naJehu mwanakomana waNishi, akanga azodzwa naJehovha kuti aparadze imba yaAhabhi.

⁷Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram: for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

⁸Zvino Jehu akati achiitira imba yaAhabhi zvakanga zvatongwa naJehovha, akawana machinda aJudha navanakomana vavanin'ina vaAhazia vachibatira Ahazia, ndokuvauraya.

⁸It happened, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and killed them.

⁹Akatsvaka Ahaziawo; vakamubata (nokuti akanga avanda paSamaria), vakamuisa kuna Jehu vakamuuraya; vakamuviga vakati, Mwanakomana waJehoshafati, akatsvaka Jehovha nomoyo wake wose. Asi kwakanga kusina mumwe weimba yaAhazia akanga ane simba rokubata ushe.

⁹He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart.” The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.

¹⁰Zvino Ataria mai vaAhazia, vakati vachiona kuti mwanakomana wavo afa, vakasimuka, vakaparadza vose vorudzi rwamambo veimba yaJudha.

¹⁰Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judah.

¹¹Asi Jehoshabhiyati mukunda wamambo wakatora Joashi mwanakomana waAhazia, akamuba pakati pavanakomana vamambo vaiurawa, akamuisa iye nomureri wake mumba mokuvata. Naizvozvo Jehoshabhiyati mukunda wamambo Jehoramu, mukadzi waJehoyadha mupristi (nokuti waiva hanzvadzi yaAhazia), akamuvanza pana Ataria, naizvozvo havana kumuuraya.

¹¹But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him.

¹²Akagara navo akavanzwa mumba maMwari makore matanhatu; Ataria akabata ushe panyika.

¹²He was with them hidden in God’s house six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.