1Zvino pamazuva aDhavhidhi kwakanga kune nzara makore matatu akatevedzana; Dhavhidhi akabvunza Jehovha. Jehovha akati, Imhaka yaSauro neyeimba yake yeropa, nekuti vakauraya vaGibhiyoni.
1There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.”
2Mambo akadana vaGibhiyoni, akati kwavari; Zvino vaGibhiyoni vakanga vasi vavana vaIsiraeri, asi ndivo vakanga vasara kuvaAmori, ndivo vakanga vapikirwa navaIsiraeri; asi Sauro wakatsvaka kuvauraya nokushingairira kwake vana vaIsiraeri navaJudha;
2The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
3Dhavhidhi akati kuva Gibhiyoni, Ndingakuitirai chinyi? Ndingayananisa neiko, kuti muropafadze nhaka yaJehovha?
3and David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?”
4VaGibhiyoni vakati kwaari, Haizi mhosva yesirivha kana yendarama pakati pedu naSauro neimba yake, nesu hatingafaniri kuuraya munhu pakati paIsiraeri. Iye akati, Chamunoreva ndichakuitirai icho.
4The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” He said, “Whatever you say, that will I do for you.”
5Ivo vakati kuna mambo, Iye munhu, wakatipedza, wakatifungira mano akaipa kuti tiparadzwe, tirege kugara panyika yose yalsiraeri,
5They said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,
6varume vanomwe vavana vake ngavapiwesu, tivasungirire pamberi paJehovha paGibhiya raSauro, mutsaurwa waJehovha. Mambo akati, Ndichakupai ivo.
6let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.” The king said, “I will give them.”
7Asi mambo wakarega Mefibhosheti mwanakomana waJonatani, mwanakomana waSauro, nokuda kokupika kwakanga kuri pakati pavo pamberi paJehovha, pakati paDhavhidhi naJonatani mwanakomana waSauro.
7But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8Asi mambo wakatora vana vaviri vaRizipa, mukunda waAya, vaakanga aberekera Sauro, Amoni naMefibhosheti, navana vashanu vaMikari mukunda waSauro, vaakanga aberekera Adhirieri mwanakomana waBharizirai muMehorati;
8But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
9akavaisa mumaoko avaGibhiyoni, ivo vakavasungirira pagomo pamberi paJehovha, vakafa vari vanomwe; vakaurawa pamazuva okukohwa, pamazuva okutanga, pakutanga kokukohwa bhari.
9He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
10Zvino Rizipa mukunda waAya wakatora makudza, akazviwarira iwo pamusoro pedombo, kubva pakutanga kokukohwa kusvikira aniwa nemvura yakabva kudenga; haana kutendera shiri dzokudenga kumhara pamusoro pawo masikati, kana zvikara zvesango usiku.
10Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
11Zvino Dhavhidhi akaudzwa zvakanga zvaitwa naRizipa mukunda waAya, murongo waSauro;
11It was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
12Dhavhidhi akandotora mafupa aSauro namafupa aJonatani mwanakomana wake kuvarume veJabheshiGiriyadhi, vakanga vaaba panzira yeBhetishani, pavakanga vaturikwa navaFirisitia, pazuva rokuurawa kwaSauro navaFirisitia paGiribhoa.
12David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
13Akatorapo mafupa aSauro namafupa aJonatani mwanakomana wake, vakaunganidza mafupa avakanga vaturikwapo.
13and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
14Vakaviga mafupa aSauro naaJonatani mwanakomana wake panyika yavaBhenjamini paZera, pahwiro hwababa vake; vakaita zvose zvavakanga varairwa namambo. Shure kwaizvozvo Mwari akanzwira nyika tsitsi.
14They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land.
15Zvino vaFirisitia vakarwazve navaIsiraeri; Dhavhidhi akaburuka navaranda vake kundorwa navaFirisitia; Dhavhidhi akaneta.
15The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
16Zvino Ishibhibhenobhi, mumwe wavanakomana vaRafa, waiva nepfumo rakasvika pamashekeri ana mazana matatu endarira pakurema kwaro, iye wakange akashonga munondo mutsva, akafunga kuuraya Dhavhidhi.
16and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
17Asi Abhishai mwanakomana waZeruya wakamubatsira, akabaya muFirisitia, akamuuraya. Ipapo varume vaDhavhidhi vakapika kwaari, vakati, Hamufaniri kuzoendazve nesu kundorwa, kuti murege kuzodzima mwenje waIsiraeri.
17But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”
18Zvino shure kwaizvozvo kurwa kwazovapozve navaFirisitia paGobhi; Sibekai, muHushati, akauraya Safi, mumwe wavanakomana vaRafa.
18It came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
19Vakarwazve navaFirisitia paGobhi, Erihanani mwanakomana waJaarioregimi weBheterehemu akauraya Goriati muGiti, rwiriko rwepfumo rake rwakaga rwakaita sedanda romuruki.
19There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
20Vakarwazve paGati, paiva nomunhu murefu kwazvo, waiva nemimwe mitanhatu paruoko rumwe norumwe, nezvigumwe zvitanhatu parutsoka rumwe norumwe, zvaisvika makumi maviri nezvina pakuverengwa kwazvo; naiyewo wakange akaberekerwa Rafa.
20There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
21Zvino wakati achishora vaIsiraeri, Jonatani mwanakomana waShimei, munin'ina waDhavhidhi akamuuraya.
21When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.
22Ava vana vakanga vakaberekerwa Rafa paGati; vakaurawa naDhavhidhi, uye navaranda vake.
22These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.