2 Makoronike
16:1 Negore ramakumi matatu namatanhatu rokubata ushe kwaAsa Bhaasha mambo waIsiraeri
akakwira kundorwa naJudha, akavaka Rama, kuti amurege iye
hakuna anobuda kana kupinda kuna Asa mambo waJudha.
Ipapo Asa akabudisa sirivha nendarama pafuma yeimba
Jehovha noweimba yamambo, akatuma nhume kuna Bhenihadhadhi mambo weSiria;
aigara paDhamasiko, achiti.
Sungano iripo pakati pangu nemi, sezvayakavapo pakati pababa vangu
uye baba vako, tarira, ndakutumira sirivha nendarama; enda, upatse
sungano naBhaasha mambo waIsiraeri, kuti abve kwandiri.
Bhenihadhadhi akateerera mambo Asa, akatuma vakuru vake
hondo kuzorwa namaguta aIsiraeri; vakakunda Ijoni, neDhani, ne
neAbherimaimi, namaguta ose amatura aNafutari.
16:5 Zvino Bhaasha wakati achizvinzwa, akarega kuvaka
Rama, uye basa rake ngarimiswe.
Ipapo mambo Asa akatora vaJudha vose; vakabvisa mabwe eguta
Rama, namatanda aro, zvaakavaka nazvo iye Bhaasha; uye iye
akavaka nazvo Gebha neMizipa.
16:7 Nenguva iyo muoni Hanani akaenda kuna Asa mambo waJudha, akati
akati kwaari, Nekuti wakavimba namambo weSiria, ukasavimba naye
Jehovha Mwari wako naizvozvo hondo yamambo weSiria yapukunyuka
kubva paruoko rwenyu.
16:8 Ko vaEtiopia navaRubhimi vakanga vasi hondo huru, ine vazhinji-zhinji here?
ngoro navatasvi vamabhiza? kunyange zvakadaro, zvawakavimba naJehovha, iye
zviise mumaoko ako.
16:9 Nokuti meso aJehovha anotarira-tarira kumativi ose enyika yose, kuti
azviratidze nesimba nokuda kwavane moyo wakarurama kwazvo kwavari
iye. Pachinhu ichi waita sebenzi; saka kubva zvino uchienda mberi
kuchava nehondo.
Ipapo Asa akatsamwira muoni, akamuisa mutirongo; nokuda kwake
Ndakamutsamwira zvikuru nokuda kwechinhu ichi. Asa akadzvinyirira vamwe vavo
vanhu panguva imwe chete.
16:11 Uye tarirai, mabasa aAsa, kutanga nokupedzisira, tarirai, akanyorwa
Bhuku ramadzimambo aJudha naIsraeri.
16:12 Asi mugore ramakumi matatu namapfumbamwe rokutonga kwake, Asa akava nechirwere muropa rake
tsoka dzake, kusvikira chirwere chake chanyanya;
haana kutsvaka Jehovha, asi n’anga.
16:13 Asa akavata nemadzibaba ake, akafa mugore ramakumi mana nerimwe chete.
kutonga kwake.
16:14 Vakamuviga mumarinda ake, aakanga azvigadzirira
muguta raDhavhidhi, akamuradzika pamubhedha wakanga uzere nawo
hwema hunonhuhwira nemhando dzakasiyana dzezvinonhuhwira zvinogadzirwa nevanogadzira zvinonhuwira'
vakamupisira moto mukuru kwazvo.