Ukuhlukaniswa kobukhosi
1URerhobhowamu waya eTjhekemu ngombana woke ama-Israyeli aya lapho kobana ambeke abe yikosi. 2Ngesikhatheso uJerobhowamu umsa kaNebathi gade asese seGibhide lapha abalekela khona uSolomoni. Kwathi bonyana ezwe ngendaba le, wasuka eGibhide. 3Nje-ke uJerobhowamu wabizwa. Wafika wakhambisana naye woke u-Israyeli baya kuRerhobhowamu bathi kuye: 4“Uyihlo wasithwesa ijogi elibudisi. Nje-ke wena gedlisa umsebenzi obudisi kayihlo lo nejogi asithwesa loneli, khona-ke sizakulotjha.”
5URerhobhowamu wathi: “Yenibuye kimapha ngelanga lesithathu.” Awa, yeke abantu bakhamba-ke.
6Ikosi uRerhobhowamu yabonana neengwevu zabaphathi ezazilotjha uyise uSolomoni ngesikhathi sokuphila kwakhe, yazibuza yathi: “Ningangiluleka bonyana ngithini ebantwinaba na?”
7Zathi kuye: “Nawungakhe ube nomusa ebantwinaba, ubaphathe kuhle bese ubanikela ipendulo ehle, bazakuhlala baziinceku zakho.”
8Kodwana uRerhobhowamu wala iseluleko seengwevu waya eentangeni zakhe ebegade zimlotjha. 9Wababuza wathi: “Umbono wenu uthini? Singabaphendula sithini abantu abathi kimi, angigedlise ijogi abalithweswe ngubaba na?”
10Iintanga zakhe zathi kuye: “Tjela abantu abathe kuwe batjho bafuna ukugedliselwa ijogi elibudisi abalithweswa ngubabakho uthi,
“ ‘Utsetserwanami umabhombo kunedini lakababa.
11Ubaba wanithwesa ijogi elibudisi;
mina-ke ngizalenza libe budisi ukudlula.
Ubaba bekaniritha ngesibebhu;
mina ngizonirhadla ngomrwedla.’ ”
12Ngelanga lesithathu uJerobhowamu nabantu boke babuyela kuRerhobhowamu njengombana ikosi yathi: “Yenibuye elangeni lesithathu.”
13Ikosi uRerhobhowamu yabaphendula ngobukhali. Yalahla neseluleko seengwevu, 14yalandela iseluleko seentanga zayo yathi: “Ngizokwenza ijogi libe budisi, mina ngokwami ngizolenza libe budisi ukudlula.
“Ubaba waniritha ngesibebhu,
mina ngizonirhadla ngomrwedla.”
15Yeke ikosi azange ilalele abantu ngombana isenzwesi sasiyintando kaZimu ukuzalisa ilizwi alikhuluma kuJerobhowamu umsa kaNebathi ngo-Arhiya umTjhilo.
16Kuthe lokha woke u-Israyeli nabona bonyana ikosi ayimuphi indlebe, waphendula ikosi wathi:
“Asinasabelo noDavida,
asithintani ndawo nomsa kaJese!
Ayigubhe wena Israyeli!
Uzazibona ukuqeda wena ndlu kaDavida!”
Yeke woke u-Israyeli wagoduka.
17Kodwana nakuma-Israyeli agade ahlala emadorobheni wakwaJuda wona, uRerhobhowamu wawabusa. 18Ikosi uRerhobhowamu yathuma u-Adoniramu ogade ayinduna yomsebenzi okatelelako, kodwana ama-Israyeli amkhanda ngamatje ambulala. Kodwana ikosi uRerhobhowamu yakghona ukuphunyurha yakhwela ekaranenayo yabalekela eJerusalema. 19Ngalokho u-Israyeli wathoma ukujamelana nendlu kaDavida bekwaba kunamhlanjesi.
