1 Samueri
4:1 Shoko raSamueri rakasvika kuvaIsiraeri vose. Zvino vaIsiraeri vakandorwa
VaFiristia vakadzika musasa pedyo neEbhenezeri
VaFirisitia vakadzika matende avo paAfeki.
VaFirisitia vakazvigadzirira kurwa navaIsiraeri
vakarwa, vaIsiraeri vakakundwa navaFirisitia;
vakauraya pakati pehondo varume vanenge zviuru zvina.
4:3 Zvino vanhu vakati vasvika pamisasa, vakuru vaIsiraeri vakati,
Jehovha wakatirovereiko nhasi pamberi pavaFirisitia? Let us
bvisai areka yesungano yaJehovha paShiro kwatiri, kuti;
kana ikasvika pakati pedu, ingatiponesa pamaoko avavengi vedu.
4:4 Naizvozvo vanhu vakatuma nhume kuShiro kuti vatore arekapo
yesungano yaJehovha Wamasimba Ose, iye agere pakati pamarudzi
makerubhi; uye vanakomana vaviri vaEri, Hofini naPinehasi, vakanga varipo
areka yesungano yaMwari.
5 Zvino areka yesungano yaJehovha yakati yasvika pamisasa, ivo vose
Isiraeri vakapururudza nokupururudza kukuru, nyika ikaita mawungira.
4:6 VaFirisitia vakati vachinzwa inzwi rokupururudza, vakati, Chiiko!
Rinoreva inzwi rokupururudza uku kukuru pamisasa yavaHebheru here? Uye
vakaziva kuti areka yaJehovha yasvika kumisasa.
4:7 VaFirisitia vakatya, nekuti vakati, Mwari wasvika pakati pavo
camp. Vakati, Tine nhamo! nekuti hakuna kumbovapo kwakadai
kusvikira zvino.
4:8 Tine nhamo! Ndianiko uchatirwira pamaoko avamwari ava vane simba?
Ndivo vamwari vakarova vaEgipita namatambudziko ose muIjipiti
murenje.
Simbai, muite savarume, imwi vaFirisitia, muve
musati muri varanda vavaHebheru, sezvavakanga vakaita kwamuri;
sevarume, torwa.
Zvino vaFirisitia vakarwa, vaIsiraeri vakakundwa, vakatiza vose
munhu mutende rake; kukavapo kuurawa kukuru; nokuti pawa
muIsraeri vaifamba netsoka zviuru makumi matatu.
4:11 Areka yaMwari ikatorwa; uye vanakomana vaviri vaEri, Hofini na
Pinehasi akaurayiwa.
4:12 Zvino mumwe murume wavaBhenjamini akabva kuhondo, akamhanya, akasvika paShiro
nezuva iroro nguvo dzake dzakabvaruka, neguruva pamusoro wake.
4:13 Pakusvika kwake, Eri wakange agere pachigaro chake parutivi rwenzira, akataririra
moyo wake wakabvunda pamusoro peareka yaMwari. Zvino murume wakati apinda
guta, rikareva, guta rose rikachema.
4:14 Eri wakati achinzwa inzwi rokuchema, akati, Chinyiko?
ruzha rwemhere iyi? Murume ndokukurumidza, ndokuudza Eri.
Zvino Eri wakange ava namakore ana makumi mapfumbamwe namasere; uye meso ake owonera madzedzerere, kuti iye
aisakwanisa kuona.
4:16 Murume akati kuna Eri, Ndini ndakabva kuhondo, uye ndatiza
nhasi kubva kuhondo. Ndokuti: Chii chaitwa, mwana wangu?
4:17 Mutumwa akapindura, akati, VaIsiraeri vatiza pamberi paJehovha
Uye kuuraya kukuru kwakavapo pakati pevaFirisitia
vanhu, navanakomana vako vaviri, Hofini naPinehasi, vafawo;
areka yaMwari yatorwa.
4:18 Zvino wakati achireva areka yaMwari, kuti iye
akawira pachigaro negotsi parutivi rwesuwo, nomutsipa wake
akavhunika, akafa, nekuti wakange ava mutana, ava mukobvu. Uye akanga atonga
Israeri makore makumi mana.
Zvino mukadzi womwana wake, mukadzi waPinehasi, wakange ane mimba, oda kuzvara
akati anzwa kuti areka yaMwari yatorwa.
uye kuti baba vomurume wake nomurume wake vakafa, akapfugama
uye akarwadziwa; nekuti kurwadziwa kwaro kwakaribata.
4:20 Nenguva yekufa kwake, vakadzi vakange vamire naye vakati kwaari
iye akati, Usatya; nekuti wapona mwanakomana. Asi haana kupindura, kunyange
akazviona here.
4:21 Akatumidza mwana zita rinonzi Ikabhodhi, achiti, Kukudzwa kwabviswa
Isiraeri, nekuti areka yaMwari yakanga yatorwa, uye nokuda kwababa vake vakanga vapindamo
mutemo nomurume wake.
Akati, Kukudzwa kwabviswa kuna Isiraeri, nekuti areka yaMwari iripo
kutorwa.