¹It happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him.

¹Huan, hichi ahia, Rehoboam gam a hongkibawl kipa, mi hat tak ahong hih nungin TOUPA dan a lehngatsana, amah lama pang Israel tengtengin leng.

²It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,

²Huan hichi a honghia, kumpipa Rehoboam lal kum ngana kumin, TOUPA tung a tatlek jiak un, Aigupta kumpipa Sisak Jerusalem sim dingin a hongkuan toua,

³with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

³Kangtalai sing khat leh sang nih leh sakol tungtuang mi sing guk toh: Aigupta gama mi a kianga pai sim vuallouh ahi uh; Sub te, Suki te, Ethiopia te ahi uhi.

⁴He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

⁴Juda gama kulh nei khuate a la a, Jerusalem a vatunga.

⁵Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘You have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.’”

⁵Huan, jawlnei Semai, Rehoboam leh Judate intekpen, Sisak jiaka Jerusalema kikaikhawmte kiangah a hoh toua, a kiang uah, TOUPAN hichiin a chi, Non lehngatsanta ua, huaijiakin ken leng nou Sisak khutah ka koihta ahi, a chi, a vachi a.

⁶Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”

⁶Huchiin Israelte intekpente leh kumpipa a kiniamkhiak ua, TOUPA a diktat ahi, a chi uh.

⁷When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

⁷Huan, TOUPAN a kiniamkhiak uh a theihin TOUPA thu Semai kiangah a hongtunga, A kiniamkhiakta ua; ka hihmang vek kei dinga, khenkhat ka humbit dinga, Sisak zangin Jerusalem tungah ka hehna ka sungbo kei ding.

⁸Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”

⁸Ahihhangin a sikhate ahi ding ua, ka nasep leh gam dang mi nasep dan theihna ding un, chiin.

⁹So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king’s house. He took it all away. He also took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

⁹Huchiin Aigupta kumpipa Sisak Jerusalem simin a pai toua, TOUPA ina goute leh kumpipa ina goute a laa; a la khin vek ahi; Solomon bawl dangkaeng lumte leng a la hi.

¹⁰King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.

¹⁰Huan, kumpipa Rehoboamin huaite tang dingin dal lumte a bawla, kumpipa in kongkhak ngakmi sepaih heutute a kemsak hi.

¹¹It was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of Yahweh, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

¹¹Huan, hichi ahi a, kumpipa TOUPA ina a lut tengin ngakmiten a tawi ua, huan, ngakmiten dantan ah a koih nawn jel uhi.

¹²When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things found.

¹²Huan, a kiniamkhiaktak jiakin a hihmanthat louhna dingin a tunga TOUPA hehna a kihemmangtaa; huan, Juda gam leng a hoih gige hi.

¹³So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

¹³Huchiin kumpipa Rehoboam bel Jerusalem ah a kikip saka, vai a hawma: rehoboam a lal pattungin kum sawmnih leh kum khata upa ahi, TOUPAN a min omsakna dinga Israel nam tengteng laka a tel khua Jerusalem ah kum sawm leh kum sagih a lala; a nu min Naama, Amon mi ahi.

¹⁴He did that which was evil, because he didn’t set his heart to seek Yahweh.

¹⁴TOUPA zonna dinga a lungsim a zat louh jiakin thil hoih lou a hih a.

¹⁵Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren’t they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the way of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

¹⁵Huchiin Rehoboam tanchin a bul akipan a tawp phain jawlnei Semai gelh tanchin bu ah leh jawlnei Jedai gelh tanchin bua suante tanchin lakah ahi kei maw? Rehoboam leh Jeroboam bel a kidou nilouhlouh uhi.Huan, Rehoboam a pi leh pute kiangah a ihmua, David khuaah a vui ua: na sikin a tapa Abija a lal a.

¹⁶Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.

¹⁶Huan, Rehoboam a pi leh pute kiangah a ihmua, David khuaah a vui ua: na sikin a tapa Abija a lal a.