¹At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

¹ Alwaati woodin ra Abiya, Yerobowam ize fo zaŋey.

²Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, that you won’t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Go to Shiloh. Behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.

² Yerobowam ne nga wande se: «Ay ga ni ŋwaaray, ma tun ka ni boŋ bare mate kaŋ i si ni bay hala nin no Yerobowam wande, ka koy Silo. Guna, noodin no annabi Ahiya go, nga kaŋ n'ay ciine te ka ne ay ga ciya bonkooni dumo wo boŋ.

³Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”

³ Ma buuru kunkuni way sambu mo, da maasa fooyaŋ da yu kulba, ka koy a do. A ga ci ni se haŋ kaŋ ga du arwaso.»

⁴Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

⁴ Yerobowam wande binde te yaadin. A tun ka koy Silo ka to Ahiya kwaara. Day, Ahiya si di, zama a moy te kubay a zeena se.

⁵Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”

⁵ Rabbi ne Ahiya se: «Guna, Yerobowam wande goono ga kaa ni do, zama nga ma ni hã nga ize sanni, zama a goono ga zaŋay. Ya nda ya no ni ga ci a se, zama a ga ciya, waato kaŋ waybora furo, a ga nga boŋ te sanda wayboro fo no.»

⁶It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, “Come in, you wife of Jeroboam! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.

⁶ A ciya binde, waato kaŋ Ahiya maa waybora cey yooje kaŋ a ga ba ka furo fu meyo gaa, kala Ahiya ne: «Ma furo, nin Yerobowam wande. Ifo se no ni ga alhaali barmay sanda wayboro fo no kaŋ i si bay? Zama Rabbi n'ay donton ni gaa nda baaru kaŋ ga tin.

⁷Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,

⁷ Ma koy ka ci Yerobowam se: Haŋ kaŋ Rabbi Israyla Irikoyo ci neeya: Baa kaŋ ay na ni beerandi jama ra, ay na ni ciya ay jama Israyla jine boro,

⁸and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

⁸ ay na mayra kom mo Dawda dumo gaa, k'a no ni se, kulu nda yaadin ni mana te sanda ay tamo Dawda cine. Nga wo n'ay lordey haggoy k'ay gana nda nga bina kulu, zama nga ma te hay kulu kaŋ ga saba ay diyaŋ gaa hinne.

⁹but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:

⁹ Amma ni na laala goy te ka bisa borey kulu kaŋ yaŋ na ni jin, hala ni koy ka tooruyaŋ te ni boŋ se, himandi-himandi, sooguyaŋ wane yaŋ. Ni n'ay bina zuku, hal ay ma te bine, ni n'ay furu mo ni banda.

¹⁰therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, or, male he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.

¹⁰ A go binde, ay ga masiiba candi ka kande Yerobowam dumo boŋ. Ay ga ize alboro kulu alandaaba mo Yerobowam se, nga kaŋ go daabante, da nga kaŋ go taŋante Israyla ra. Ay ma Yerobowam dumi kulu haabu ka darandi parkatak, sanda mate kaŋ cine boro ga wuri haabu hal a kulu ma ban.

¹¹He who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and he who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for Yahweh has spoken it.”’

¹¹ Boro kaŋ bu Yerobowam do haray kwaara ra, hansiyaŋ g'a ŋwa. Boro kaŋ bu saaji ra mo, beene curey g'a ŋwa, zama Rabbi no ka woodin ci.

¹²Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

¹² Ni binde waybora, ni ma tun ka koy ni kwaara. Waato kaŋ ni ce taamo furo kwaara ra, arwaso ga bu.

¹³All Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

¹³ Israyla kulu mo ga bu baray te a se, k'a fiji, zama nga hinne no Yerobowam dumo ra ga furo saaray ra, zama Rabbi Israyla Irikoyo na miila hanno gar a do, Yerobowam dumo ra.

¹⁴Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is day! What? Even now.

¹⁴ Rabbi mo ga bonkooni fo tunandi Israyla boŋ kaŋ ga Yerobowam dumo tuusu han din hane. Baa sohõ binde, ifo nooya?

¹⁵For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.

¹⁵ Zama Rabbi ga Israyla kar, sanda mate kaŋ cine kwaari ga zinji hari ra. A ga Israyla dagu laabu hanno wo kaŋ a no i kaayey se din ra. A g'i kar ka say-say hala ka koy Isa Beero daranta, zama i na wayboro himandi bundu tooruyaŋ te ngey boŋ se, hal i ma Rabbi zokoti a ma te bine.

¹⁶He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”

¹⁶ A ga Israyla furu Yerobowam zunubey kaŋ yaŋ a te sabbay se, da mo nango kaŋ a na Israyla daŋ i ma zunubi te.»

¹⁷Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

¹⁷ Yerobowam wando binde tun ka dira ka kaa Tirza. Kaŋ a to fuwo kutijo gaa, kala arwaso bu.

¹⁸All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

¹⁸ Israyla kulu binde n'a fiji ka bu baray te a se, Rabbi sanno kaŋ a te nga tamo annabi Ahiya me ra din boŋ.

¹⁹The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

¹⁹ Yerobowam goy cindey binde, da mate kaŋ a na wongu te d'a, da mate kaŋ a na mayray te d'a, guna i n'i hantum Israyla bonkooney baaru tira ra.

²⁰The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

²⁰ Jiirey kaŋ Yerobowam na mayray te, jiiri waranka cindi hinka no. A kani nga kaayey banda. A ize Nadab mo te bonkooni a nango ra.

²¹Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. 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.

²¹ Suleymanu ize Rehobowam may Yahuda ra. Rehobowam gonda jiiri waytaaci cindi fo kaŋ a na nga mayra sintin. A may mo jiiri way cindi iyye Urusalima ra. Birno nooya kaŋ Rabbi suuban Israyla kundey kulu ra, naŋ kaŋ a ga nga maa sinji. Bonkoono nyaŋo ti Naama, Amon wayboro no.

²²Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

²² Yahuda mo na goy laalo te Rabbi diyaŋ gaa, k'a bine zuku hal a ma canse ka bisa hay kulu kaŋ i kaayey te i zunubey kaŋ i te sabbay se.

²³For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

²³ Zama i na tudey boŋ sududuyaŋ nangey cina ngey boŋ se. I na tondiyaŋ jabu ka te tooru himandi ka wayboro himandi bundu tooruyaŋ te tudu kulu kaŋ ga ku boŋ da tuuri-nya kulu kaŋ gonda bi cire.

²⁴and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.

²⁴ Arkuuruyaŋ mo go no laabo ra. Dumey mo kaŋ Rabbi gaaray Israyla izey jine waato, i te i fanta hari teerey kulu boŋ.

²⁵It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

²⁵ A ciya binde, Rehobowam koytara jiiri guwanta ra, kala Misira bonkoono Sisak kande wongu Urusalima gaa.

²⁶and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

²⁶ Rabbi windo jinayyaŋ kaŋ gonda darza, da bonkoono windo ra jinayyaŋ kaŋ gonda darza, da wura korayey kaŋ Suleymanu te, a n'i ku ka dira nda ikulu.

²⁷King 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.

²⁷ I nango ra Bonkoono Rehobowam na korayyaŋ te da guuru-say k'i daŋ batukoy jine borey kambe ra, ngey kaŋ yaŋ goono ga bonkoono windo me batu.

²⁸It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

²⁸ A ciya binde, waati kaŋ bonkoono ga furo Rabbi windo ra, batukoy g'i sambu ka kond'ey. D'a ye ka kaa, i ga ye ka kand'ey batukoy fuwo ra.

²⁹Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

²⁹ Rehobowam goy cindo, da hay kulu kaŋ a te, manti i n'i hantum Yahuda bonkooney baaru tirey ra bo?

³⁰There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

³⁰ Wongu go no mo Rehobowam nda Yerobowam game ra, kaŋ mana ye da banda.

³¹Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.

³¹ Kala Rehobowam kani nga kaayey banda. I n'a fiji mo nga kaayey banda Dawda birno ra. A nya maa Naama, Amon wayboro no. A ize Abiyam te bonkooni a nango ra.