1Zvino Soromoni akati apedza kunyengetera, moto ndokuburuka kudenga, ukapedza chipiriso chinopiswa nezvimwe zvibayiro; kubwinya kwaJehovha kukazadza imba.
1Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the house.
2Vapristi vakakoniwa kupinda muimba yaJehovha, nekuti kubwinya kwaJehovha kwakanga kwazadza imba yaJehovha.
2The priests could not enter into the house of Yahweh, because the glory of Yahweh filled Yahweh’s house.
3Vana vaIsiraeri vose vakatarira moto uchiburuka kudenga nokubwinya kwaJehovha kuchigara pamusoro peimba; vakakotamira pasi nezviso zvavo pakarongwa namabwe, vakanamata nokuvonga Jehovha, vachiti, nekuti akanaka. Nekuti nyasha dzake dzinogara nokusingaperi.
3All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of Yahweh was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever.”
4Ipapo mambo navanhu vose vakabayira zvibayiro pamberi paJehovha.
4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yahweh.
5Mambo Soromoni akabayira chibayiro chenzombe dzine zviuru zvina makumi maviri nezviviri, namakwai ane zviuru zvine zana namakumi maviri. Saizvozvo mambo navanhu vose vakatsaurira Mwari imba iyo.
5King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated God’s house.
6Vapristi vakamirapo, sezvavakagoverwa mabasa avo; navaRevhivo vane zvokuridzira Jehovha, zvakaitwa namambo Dhavhidhi, zvokuvonga Jehovha nazvo, nekuti nyasha dzake dzinogara nokusingaperi, panguva iya Dhavhidhi yaakakudza Jehovha nazvo; vapristi vakaridza hwamanda pamberi pavo, vaIsiraeri vose vakamira.
6The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, when David praised by their ministry, saying “For his loving kindness endures for ever.” The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
7Soromoni akatsaurawo nzvimbo yapakati yoruvazhe rwakanga ruri pamberi peimba yaJehovha; nekuti ndipo paakabayira zvipiriso zvinopiswa, namafuta ezvipiriso zvokuyananisa; nekuti aritari yendarira yakaitwa naSoromoni yakanga isingagoni kuringana chipiriso chinopiswa, nechipiriso choupfu, namafuta.
7Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat.
8Naizvozvo Soromoni akatamba mutambo panguva iyo mazuva manomwe, navaIsiraeri vose pamwechete naye, ikaita ungano huru-huru, kubva pavanopinda paHamati, kusvikira parukova rweEgipita.
8So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.
9Zvino pazuva rorusere vakatamba mutambo wokupedzisira; nekuti vakatsaura aritari mazuva manomwe, vakaita mutambo mazuva manomwe.
9On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
10Zvino pazuva ramakumi maviri namatatu romwedzi wechinomwe akaendisa vanhu kumatende avo nemoyo yakanga ichifara, ichifarira zvakanaka zvose zvakaitira Jehovha Dhavhidhi, naSoromoni, navanhu vake vaIsiraeri.
10On the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
11Saizvozvo Soromoni akapedza imba yaJehovha, neimba yamambo; zvose zvakanga zviri mumoyo waSoromoni kuita muimba yaJehovha, nomumba make, wakazviita kwazvo.
11Thus Solomon finished the house of Yahweh, and the king’s house: and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of Yahweh, and in his own house.
12Ipapo Jehovha akazviratidza kuna Soromoni usiku, akati kwaari, Ndanzwa kunyengetera kwako, ndazvitsaurira nzvimbo iyi, ive imba yokubayira zvibayiro.
12Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
13Kana ndichinge ndadzivira kudenga, kuti mvura irege kunaya, kana zvimwe ndichinge ndaraira mhashu, kuti dzipedze nyika, kana zvimwe ndichinge ndatuma denda pakati pavanhu vangu;
13“If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
14kana vanhu vangu, vakatumidzwa nezita rangu, vakazvininipisa, vakanyengetera nokutsvaka chiso changu, nokurega nzira dzavo dzakaipa; ipapo ndichanzwa kudenga ndichavakangamwira zvivi zvavo, nokupodza nyika yavo.
14if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
15Zvino meso angu achasvinura, nzeve dzangu dzichateerera ndinzwe munyengetero unoitwa panzvimbo iyi.
15Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
16Nekuti zvino ndatsaura imba ino nokuiita tsvene, zita rangu rivepo nokusingaperi; meso angu nomoyo wangu zvichavapo nokusingaperi.
16For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
17Kana uriwe, kana ukafamba pamberi pangu sababa vako, Dhavhidhi, ukaita zvose zvandakakuraira, ukachengeta zvandatema nezvandatonga,
17“As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
18ipapo ini ndichasimbisa chigaro chako choushe, sezvandakapikira baba vako Dhavhidhi, ndichiti, Haungashaiwi munhu achabata ushe hwaIsiraeri.
18then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’
19Asi kana mukatsauka, mukasiya zvandatema nezvandaraira zvandakaisa pamberi penyu, mukandoshumira vamwe vamwari, mukavanamata;
19But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
20ipapo ndichavadzura nemidzi panyika yangu yandakavapa, neimba iyi yandakatsaurira zita rangu, ndichairashira kure ndirege kuiona, ndiite shumo nechiseko pakati pavanhu vose.
20then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
21Neimba iyi kunyange yakakwirira ikadai, vose vanopfuura nayo vachakanuka, vachiti, Jehovha wakaitireiko kudai nenyika ino, uye neimba iyi?
21This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?’
22Vachapindura, vachiti: Nekuti vakasiya Jehovha, Mwari wamadzibaba avo, wakavabudisa panyika yeEgipita, vakanamatira vamwe vamwari, vakavanamata, nokuvashumira; saka Jehovha akavapinza panjodzi idzi dzose.
22They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.’”