1 Wafalme 14
1 Wakati huo Abiya mwana wa Yeroboamu akawa mgonjwa sana.
At that time was Abijah son of Jeroboam sick,
2 Yeroboamu akamwambia mke wake, “amka ujibadilishe, ili wasikutambue kuwa wewe ndiye mke wangu, na uende Shilo, kwa sababu nabii Ahiya yuko huko, yeye ndiye aliyeninea mimi kuwa nitakuwa mfalme juu ya watu hawa.
and Jeroboam saith to his wife, 'Rise, I pray thee, and change thyself, and they know not that thou [art] wife of Jeroboam, and thou hast gone to Shiloh; lo, there [is] Ahijah the prophet; he spake unto me of [being] king over this people;
3 Uchukue mikate kumi, na kaki na mtungi wa asali, na uende kwa Ahiya. Naye atakuambia kitakachotokea kwa mtoto.”
and thou hast taken in thy hand ten loaves, and crumbs, and a bottle of honey, and hast gone in unto him; he doth declare to thee what becometh of the youth.'
4 Mke wa Yeroboamu akafanya hivyo; akaenda Shilo mpaka kwenye nyumba ya Ahiya. Wakati huo Ahiya alikuwa hawezi kuona, kwa kuwa macho yake yalikuwa yameishiwa nguvu kwa sababu ya umri wake.
And the wife of Jeroboam doth so, and riseth, and goeth to Shiloh, and entereth the house of Ahijah, and Ahijah is not able to see, for his eyes have stood because of his age.
5 BWANA akamwambia Ahiya, “Tazama mke wa Ahiya anakuja kutafuta kutaka ushauri toka kwako kuhusiana na mwanae, kwa kuwa ni mgonjwa. Mwambie hivi na hivi, kwa sababu atakapofika atajifanya kuwa ni mwanamke mwingine.”
And Jehovah said unto Ahijah, 'Lo, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from thee concerning her son, for he is sick; thus and thus thou dost speak unto her, and it cometh to pass at her coming in, that she is making herself strange.'
6 Naye Ahiya aliposikia sauti za miguu yake alipokuwa akiukaribia mlango, akasema, “karibu, mke wa Yeroboamu. Kwa nini unajifanya kuwa mtu mwingine? Nimetumwa kwako nikiwa na habaari mbaya.
And it cometh to pass, at Ahijah's hearing the sound of her feet [as] she came in to the opening, that he saith, 'Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why is this — thou art making thyself strange? and I am sent unto thee [with] a sharp thing:
7 Nenda ukamwambia Yeroboamu kwamba BWANA, Mungu wa Israeli, anasema, 'Nilikuinua kutoka kati ya watu na kukufanya uwe kiongozi wa watu wangu Israeli.
Go, say to Jeroboam, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Because that I have made thee high out of the midst of the people, and appoint thee leader over my people Israel,
8 Niliugawa ufalme kutoka kwa Daudi na kukupa wewe, lakini bado hutaki kuwa kama mtumishi wangu Daudi, ambaye alizishika amri zangu na kunifuata kwa moyo wake wote, na kufanya kilichokuwa sawa mbele ya macho yangu.
and rend the kingdom from the house of David, and give it to thee, — and thou hast not been as My servant David who kept My commands, and who walked after Me with all his heart, to do only that which [is] right in Mine eyes,
9 Badala yake, umefanya maovu, zaidi ya wote waliokutangulia. Umetengeneza miungu mingine, na umetengeneza sanamu za kuyeyushwa ili kunikasirisha na kunitupa nyuma yako.
and thou dost evil above all who have been before thee, and goest, and makest to thee other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and Me thou hast cast behind thy back:
10 Kwa hiyo, tazama, Nitaleta majanga kwenye familia yako; Nitawatupilia mbali watoto wako wote wa kiume katika Israeli, kama ni mtumwa au ni huru, na nitaiondoa familia yako, kama mtu anayechoma mavi mpaka yaishe.
'Therefore, lo, I am bringing in evil unto the house of Jeroboam, and have cut off to Jeroboam those sitting on the wall — shut up and left — in Israel, and have put away the posterity of the house of Jeroboam, as one putteth away the dung till its consumption;
11 Yeyote ambaye ni mwanafamilia yako atakayefia mjini ataliwa na mbwa, na yeyote atakayefia shamabani ataliwa na ndege wa angani, kwa kuwa Mimi BWANA, nimesema;
him who dieth of Jeroboam in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dieth in a field do fowl of the heavens eat, for Jehovah hath spoken.
12 Kwa hiyo inuka wewe mke wa Yeroboamu, na uende nyumbani kwako; na mguu wako utakapokanyaga mjini, yule mtoto wa Abiya atakufa.
'And thou, rise, go to thy house; in the going in of thy feet to the city — hath the lad died;
13 Na Israeli yote itamwombolezea na kumzika. Ni yeye pekee katika familia ya Abiya atakayepelekwa makaburini, kwa sababu ni yeye pekee yake kutoka kwenye nyumba ya Abiya, ambaye BWANA, Mungu wa Israeli alimwona kuwa ni mwema.
and all Israel have mourned for him, and buried him, for this one — by himself — cometh of Jeroboam unto a grave, because there hath been found in him a good thing towards Jehovah, God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
14 Pia BWANA atainua mfalme katika Israeli ambaye ataifutilia mbali familia ya Yeroboamu katika siku hiyo. Leo ndiyo siku hiyo, sasa hivi.
'And Jehovah hath raised up for Him a king over Israel who cutteth off the house of Jeroboam this day — and what? — even now!
15 Kwa kuwa BWANA ataishambulia Israeli kama vile majani yanavyotikiswa majini, na ataing'oa Israeli katika nchi hii njema ambayo aliwpa mababu. Atawatawanya hata ng'ambo ya Mto Frati, kwa sababu wamefanya nguzo za Ashera kumkasirisha BWANA.
And Jehovah hath smitten Israel as the reed is moved by the waters, and hath plucked Israel from off this good ground that He gave to their fathers, and scattered them beyond the River, because that they made their shrines, provoking Jehovah to anger;
16 Ataiacha Israeli kwa sababu ya dhambi ya Yeroboamu, dhambi ambazo ametenda, na kwa hizo ameifanya Israeli kufanya dhambi.
and He giveth up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin.'
17 Kwa hiyo mke wa Yeroboamu akainuka na akaondoka na akaenda mpaka Tirza. Naye alipofika kizingitini kwa nyumba yake, yule mtoto akafa.
And the wife of Jeroboam riseth, and goeth, and cometh to Tirzah; she hath come in to the threshold of the house, and the youth dieth;
18 Isareli wote wakamzika na kumwombolezea, kama vile alivyokuwa ameambiwa kwa neno la BWANA ambalo amelisema kupitia mtumishi wake nabii Ahiya.
and they bury him, and mourn for him do all Israel, according to the word of Jehovah, that he spake by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet.
19 Na kwa mambo mengine yanayOmhusu Yeroboamu, jinsi alivyopigana vita na jinsi alivyotawala, tazama yameandikwa katika kitabu cha matukio ya wafalme wa Israeli.
And the rest of the matters of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, lo, they are written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.
20 Yeroboamu alitawala kwa miaka ishirini na mbili naye akalala na babu zake, na Nadabu mwanawe akawa mfalme mahali pake.
And the days that Jeroboam reigned [are] twenty and two years, and he lieth with his fathers, and reign doth Nadab his son in his stead.
21 Sasa Rehoboamu mwana wa Sulemani alikuwa mtawala wa Yuda. Rehoboamu alikuwa na umri wa miaka arobaini na moja alipokuwa mfalme, na akatawala kwa miaka kumi na saba kule Yerusalemu, mji ambao BWANA alikuwa ameuchagua kati ya makabila yote ya Israeli ili aweke jina lake kule. Jina la mama yake alikuwa Naama Mwamori.
And Rehoboam son of Solomon hath reigned in Judah; a son of forty and one years [is] Rehoboam in his reigning, and seventeen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, the city that Jehovah chose to set His name there, out of all the tribes of Israel, and the name of his mother [is] Naamah the Ammonitess.
22 Yuda ikafanya yaliyo maovu mbele ya macho ya BWANA; wakamtia wivu kwa makosa yao, zaidi ya yote ambayo baba zao walikuwa wamefanya
And Judah doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and they make Him zealous above all that their fathers did by their sins that they have sinned.
23 Kwa kuwa walijijengea wenyewe mahali pa juu, nguzo za mawe, na nguzo za Ashera katika kila mahali pa juu na katika kila mti wenye majani mabichi.
And they build — also they — for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;
24 Pia kulikuwepo na ukahaba wa kipagani katika nchi. Walifanya machukizo yaleyale kama wa mataifa yale ambayo BWANA alikuwa amewafukuza kutoka kwa watu wa Israeli.
and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.
25 Ilitokea wakati wa mwaka wa tano wa mfalme Rehoboamu wakati Shishaki akiwa mfalme wa Misri, akaja kinyume na Yerusalemu.
And it cometh to pass, in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, gone up hath Shishak king of Egypt against Jerusalem,
26 Akaichukua hazina iliyokuwa kwenye nyumba ya BWANA, na ile hazina iliyokuwa kwenye nyumba ya Mfalme. Akachukua kila kitu; Pia alizichukua zile ngao za dhahabu ambazo Sulemani alikuwa ametengeneza.
and he taketh the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king, yea, the whole he hath taken; and he taketh all the shields of gold that Solomon made.
27 Mfalme Rehoboamu akatengeneza ngao za shaba mahali pake na akazikabidhi kwa wakuu wa walinzi, ambao walilinda malango ya kuingia kwa mfalme.
And king Rehoboam maketh in their stead shields of brass, and hath made [them] a charge on the hand of the heads of the runners, those keeping the opening of the house of the king,
28 Na ikawa kila mfalme alipoingia kwenye nyumba ya BWANA, wale walinzi walizibeba na baadaye walizirudisha katika chumba cha walinzi.
and it cometh to pass, from the going in of the king to the house of Jehovah, the runners bear them, and have brought them back unto the chamber of the runners.
29 Lakini katika mambo mengine kuhusiana na Rehoboamu, na yote yale aliyofanya, je, hayakuandikwa kwenye kitabu cha matukio ya wafalme wa Yuda?
And the rest of the matters of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
30 Kulikuwa na mapigano yasiyokoma kati ya nyumba ya Rehoboamu na nyumba ya Yeroboamu.
And war hath been between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days;
31 Kwa hiyo Rehoboamu akalala na mababu zake naye akazikwa pamoja nao katika mji wa Daudi Jina la mama yake alikuwa Naama Mwamori. Abiya mwanawe akawa mfalme mahali pake
and Rehoboam lieth with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers, in the city of David, and the name of his mother [is] Naamah the Ammonitess, and reign doth Abijam his son in his stead.
