Kufa kwa Mambo Saulo
(1 Samuele 31:1-13)1 Bafilisitiya bakagwa ne Baiziraela ngono Baiziraela bakatizha Bafilisitiya ngono Baiziraela bakabulawa nge Bafilisitiya mu Dombo le Gilibhowa. 2 Ndizo Bafilisitiya bakatatamila Saulo ne bakololo babe, bakabulaya Jonatani na Abinadabu na Malikishuwa bakololo ba Saulo. 3 Ngwa yakabe ikulila Saulo ngono baposi be misebe bakan'wana bakankubadza kwazo. 4 Ipapo Saulo kadwa nzhuzha unonsengela mathumo eti, “Shomola thumo lilo undibhaye nalo ndife, ngoti pamwe ibabo basakathumbigwa bangadwa bezha bezwithamila kuda kwabo mundili.” Koga nsengi we mathumo kalamba ngobe akabe etja kukulu. Ndizo Saulo katola thumo lile kazwiligila mu lili. 5 Ngono kukati nsengi we mathumo ebona kuti Saulo wafa, naiye kazwilashila mu thumo lile ngono kafabo. 6 Ndizo Saulo ne bakololo babe bose batatu bakafa saikoko, bose be bagali thaka babe bakafabo. 7 Ndizo kwakati Baiziraela bose bakabe bali pa nkuku bebona kuti balume babo be ngwa batizha ne kuti Saulo ne bakololo babe bafa, bakafupatila mizi yabo bakatizha, Bafilisitiya bakazha bakazwigaligwa mu mizi yabo.
8 Kwakati tjimuka Bafilisitiya bezha kuwotolela ibabo bakafa, bakawana Saulo ne bakololo babe bakafa mu Dombo le Gilibhowa. 9 Bakambula zwiambalo zwizwe bakatola nsholo uwe ne zwibhayano zwizwe zwe ngwa bakatuma batumwa shango yose ye Filisitiya kuandamisa thawu dzinozipa dzekukunda ku midzimu yabo neku bathu babo. 10 Bakatola zwiambalo zwe ngwa bakazwibiga mu ng'umba ye midzimu yabo ngono bakalembeledza nsholo uwe mu ng'umba ye ndzimu wabo Dagoni. 11 Ngono kwakati bathu be Jabeshi bamu Giliyadi behwa kuti Bafilisitiya bakathamani Saulo, 12 balume bakasima bakayenda bakanotola itumbo tja Saulo ne zwe bakololo babe ngono bakazwizhisa ku Jabeshi. Bakabiganya mafupa abo kusi kwe nti nkulu umu Jabeshi bakazwinyima zojiwa mazhuba ali kutendeka.
13 Saulo kafa saikoko ngoshaya bugalimoyo kukwe, wakabe asina bugalimoyo muna Yahwe ngobe wakabe asingabhulutane dama la Yahwe ne kuti wakabe ekumbila gumbuludzo mu mmwe wakabe elebeleka ne badzimu, 14 kakale ne kuti aazoshaka gumbuludzo muna Yahwe. Ndizo Yahwe bakan'letjedzela kuti afe ngono bakatola bushe bakagupa Dafite nkololo wa Jesi.
King Saul and His Sons Die
(1 Samuel 31.1-13)1 The Philistines fought against Israel in a battle at Mount Gilboa. Israel's soldiers ran from the Philistines, and many of them were killed. 2 The Philistines closed in on Saul and his sons and killed three of them: Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua. 3 The fighting was fierce around Saul, and he was badly wounded by enemy arrows.
4 Saul told the soldier who carried his weapons, “Kill me with your sword! I don't want those godless Philistines to torture and make fun of me.”
But the soldier was afraid to kill him. Then Saul stuck himself in the stomach with his own sword and fell on the blade. 5 When the soldier realized that Saul was dead, he killed himself in the same way.
6 Saul, three of his sons, and all his male relatives were dead. 7 The Israelites who lived in Jezreel Valley learned that their army had run away and that Saul and his sons were dead. They ran away too, and the Philistines moved into the towns the Israelites left behind.
8 The next day the Philistines came back to the battlefield to carry away the weapons of the dead Israelite soldiers. When they found the bodies of Saul and his sons on Mount Gilboa, 9 they took Saul's weapons, pulled off his armor, and cut off his head. Then they sent messengers everywhere in Philistia to spread the news among their people and to thank the idols of their gods. 10 They put Saul's armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of their god Dagon.
11 When the people who lived in Jabesh in Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 some brave men went to get his body and the bodies of his three sons. The men brought the bodies back to Jabesh, where they buried them under an oak tree. Then for seven days, they went without eating to show their sorrow.
13 Saul died because he was unfaithful and disobeyed the Lord. He even asked advice from a woman who talked to spirits of the dead, 14 instead of asking the Lord. So the Lord had Saul killed and gave his kingdom to David, the son of Jesse.