¹Saizvozvo mabasa ose akaitirwa imba yaJehovha naSoromoni akapera. Zvino Soromoni akapinza zvinhu zvakanga zvatsaurirwa Jehovha nababa vake Dhavhidhi, sirivha, nendarama, nenhumbi dzose, akadziisa muzvivigiro zveimba yaMwari.

¹Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.

²Zvino Soromoni akaunganidza vakuru valsiraeri, navakuru vose vamarudzi, iwo machinda edzimba dzamadzibaba avana vaIsiraeri, paJerusaremu, akakwidza areka yesungano yaJehovha ibve paguta raDhavhidhi, iro Ziyoni.

²Then 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 Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.

³Varume vose vaIsiraeri vakaungana kuna mambo pamutambo, wakange uri pamwedzi wechinomwe.

³And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.

⁴Vakuru vose vaIsiraeri vakasvika, vaRevhi vakasimudza areka.

⁴All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;

⁵Vakakwira neareka, netende rokusangana, nenhumbi dzose tsvene dzakanga dziri muTende; vapristi vaRevhi vakakwira naizvozvo.

⁵and they brought up the ark, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these the priests the Levites brought up.

⁶Mambo Soromoni, neungano yose yavaIsiraeri yakanga yaunganira kwaari, vakafamba pamberi peareka, vakabayira makwai nenzombe, zvakanga zvisingagoni kuverengwa nokuwanda kwazvo.

⁶King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

⁷Ipapo vapristi vakagadzika areka yesungano yaJehovha panzvimbo yayo, panzvimbo tsvene yeimba, panzvimbo tsvene-tsvene, ipo panyasi pamapapiro amakerubhi.

⁷The 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.

⁸nekuti makerubhi akatambanudza mapapiro awo pamusoro penzvimbo yeareka, makerubhi akafukidza areka namatanda ayo nechokumusoro.

⁸For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

⁹Matanda akanga akareba; naizvozvo miromo yamatanda yakanga ichionekwa kana munhu ari paareka pamberi penzvimbo tsvene; asi akanga asingaonekwi nechokunze, ichipo kusvikira nhasi.

⁹The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day.

¹⁰Mukati meareka makanga musisine chiro, asi mabwendefa maviri akanga aiswamo naMozisi paHorebhu, nguva Jehovha yaakaita sungano navana valsiraeri pakubuda kwavo paEgipita.

¹⁰There was nothing in the ark except the two tables which Moses put at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

¹¹Zvino vapristi vakati vabuda panzvimbo tsvene (nokuti vapristi vose, vakanga varipo, vakanga vazvinatsa, vasingaiti hanya namapoka avo;

¹¹It happened, when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;

¹²navaRevhi vosewo, vaiva vaimbi, vose vavo, vaiti, Asafi, naHemani, naJedhutuni, nokuvanakomana vavo, navananin'ina vavo, vakafuka micheka michena yakapfava, vanamakandira, nemitengerangwa, nembira, vakamira kurutivi rwamabvazuva rwearitari, uye pamwechete navo vapristi vane zana namakumi maviri, vachiridza hwamanda;)

¹²also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets;)

¹³zvino varidzi vehwamanda, navaimbi, vakati vachiita mawa, vachiita nenzwi rimwe vachirumbidza nokuvonga Jehovha; vakati vachiimbisa pamwechete nehwamanda, namakandira, nezvokuridzisa nazvo, vachirumbidza Jehovha, vachiti, nekuti akanaka. Nekuti nyasha dzake dzinogara nokusingaperi; ipapo imba yakazara negore, iyo imba yaJehovha;

¹³it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!” that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh,

¹⁴naizvozvo vapristi vakanga vasingagoni kumira pabasa nokuda kwegore; nekuti kubwinya kwaJehovha kwakazadza imba yaMwari.

¹⁴so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled God’s house.