¹Negore rechipiri raJoashi mwanakomana waJoahazi mambo waIsiraeri, Amazia mwanakomana waJoashi mambo waJudha, akatanga kubata ushe.

¹In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign.

²Akatanga kubata ushe ana makore makumi maviri namashanu; akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore makumi maviri namapfumbamwe; zita ramai vake rakanga riri Jehoadhini weJerusaremu.

²He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

³Akaita zvakarurama pamberi paJehovha, asi haana kufanana nababa vake Dhavhidhi; akaita zvose zvakaita baba vake Joashi.

³He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.

⁴Asi matunhu akakwirira haana kubviswa, asi vanhu vakaramba vachibayira nokupisa zvinonhuhwira pamatunhu akakwirira.

⁴However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

⁵Zvino ushe hwakati huchangosimbiswa naye, akauraya varanda vake vakanga vauraya mambo baba vake.

⁵It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father:

⁶Asi haana kuuraya vana vavaurayi, sezvazvakanyorwa mubhuku yomurayiro waMozisi, sezvakaraira Jehovha, achiti, Madzibaba ngaarege kuurawa nokuda kwavana, kana vana ngavarege kuurawa nokuda kwamadzibaba; asi munhu mumwe nomumwe ngaafire zvivi zvake.

⁶but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

⁷Akauraya vane zviuru zvine gumi zvavaEdhomu pamupata womunyu, akakundawo Sera pakurwa, akaritumidza zita rinonzi Joketeeri, kusvikira zuva ranhasi.

⁷He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

⁸Zvino Amazia akatuma nhume kuna Jehoashi mwanakomana waJehoahazi mwanakomana waJehu, mambo waIsiraeri, akati, Uya tionane.

⁸Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”

⁹Jehoashi mambo waIsiraeri akatuma shoko kuna Amazia mambo waJudha, akati, Rukato rwakanga ruri paRebhanoni rwakatuma shoko kumusidhari wakange uri paRebhanoni, rukati, Ipa mwanakomana wangu mukunda wako, ave mukadzi wake; zvino imwe mhuka yakanga iri paRebhanoni ikapfuurapo, ikatsikatsika rukato.

⁹Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

¹⁰Iwe wakunda vaEdhomu, zvino moyo wako wozvikudza; chizvikudza hako, ugare kumusha; nekuti unotsvakireiko njodzi, uwiremo, iwe naJudha pamwechete newe?

¹⁰You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

¹¹Asi Amazia wakaramba kunzwa. Naizvozvo Jehoashi mambo waIsiraeri akaenda; iye naAmazia mambo waJudha vakaonana paBhetishemeshi raiva raJudha.

¹¹But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

¹²VaJudha vakakundwa navaIsiraeri, mumwe nomumwe akatizira kutende rake.

¹²Judah was defeated by Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.

¹³Jehoashi mambo waIsiraeri akasunga Amazia mambo waJudha, mwanakomana waJehoashi, mwanakomana waAhazia, paBhetishemeshi, akasvika Jerusaremu, akaputsa rusvingo rweJerusaremu, kubva pasuwo raEfuremu kusvikira pasuwo rapakona, makubhiti ana mazana mana.

¹³Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

¹⁴Akatora ndarama yose nesirivha, nemidziyo yose yakawanikwa mumba maJehovha, napafuma yomumba mamambo, navanhu kuzova rubatso, akadzokera Samaria.

¹⁴He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

¹⁵Zvino mamwe mabasa aJehoashi aakaita, nesimba rake, nokurwa kwake naAmazia mambo waJudha, hazvina kunyorwa here mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aIsiraeri?

¹⁵Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

¹⁶Jehoashi akavata namadzibaba ake, akavigwa paSamaria kuna madzimambo aIsiraeri, Jerobhoamu akamutevera paushe.

¹⁶Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.

¹⁷Amazia mwanakomana waJoashi mambo waJudha wakaramba ari mupenyu makore ane gumi namashanu, shure kokufa kwaJehoashi mwanakomana waJehoahazi mambo welsiraeri.

¹⁷Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

¹⁸Zvino mamwe mabasa aAmazia haana kunyorwa here mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aJudha?

¹⁸Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

¹⁹Zvino vakarangana kumuuraya paJerusaremu, akatizira Rakishi; asi vakatuma vanhu Rakishi vachimutevera, vakamuurayirapo.

¹⁹They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

²⁰Vakauya naye pamabhiza, akavigwa kuna madzibaba ake muguta raDhavhidhi.

²⁰They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

²¹Zvino vanhu vose vaJudha vakatora Azaria, wakange anamakore ane gumi namatanhatu, vakamuita mambo panzvimbo yababa vake Amazia.

²¹All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

²²Akavaka Erati, akaridzosera kuna Judha, mambo avata namadzibaba ake.

²²He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

²³Negore regumi namashanu raAmazia mwanakomana waJoashi mambo waJudha, Jerobhoamu mwanakomana waJoashi, mambo waIsiraeri, akatanga kubata ushe paSamaria, akaubata makore ana makumi mana nerimwe.

²³In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.

²⁴Akaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha; haana kutsauka pazvivi zvose zvaJerobhoamu mwanakomana waNebhati, zvaakatadzisa Isiraeri nazvo.

²⁴He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

²⁵Akakundazve nyika yaIsiraeri, kubva pavanopinda paHamati kusvikira pagungwa reArabha, sezvakarehwa neshoko raJehovha, Mwari waIsiraeri, raakataura nomuromo womuranda wake Jona, mwanakomana waAmitai, muporofita weGatiheferi.

²⁵He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher.

²⁶Nekuti Jehovha wakaona kutambudzika kwaIsiraeri, kuti kwakanga kwakanyanya kwazvo; nekuti kwakanga kusina vakuru navaduku, kwakanga kusina mubetseri waIsiraeri.

²⁶For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel.

²⁷Asi Jehovha haana kutaura kuti uchadzima zita relsiraeri pasi pedenga, asi wakavaponesa noruoko rwaJerobhoamu mwanakomana waJoashi.

²⁷Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

²⁸Zvino mamwe mabasa aJerobhoamu, nezvose zvaakaita, nesimba rake, nokurwa kwake, nokudzosera kwake Dhamasiko neHamati kuna Isiraeri, aiva maguta aJudha, hazvina kunyorwa here mubhuku yaMakoronike amadzimambo aIsiraeri?

²⁸Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

²⁹Jerobhoamu akavata namadzibaba ake, madzimambo aIsiraeri; Zekariya mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.

²⁹Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.