1 Siangpahrang 14
1 Hatnae tueng nah Jeroboam e a capa Abijah teh a tak a pataw.
At that time, Jeroboam’s son Abijah became very sick.
2 Jeroboam ni a yu koevah, thaw haw, Jeroboam e a yu tie a panue awh hoeh nahan, na kâsak vaiteh, Shiloh kho cet. Hawvah profet Ahijah, hetnaw e lathueng siangpahrang lah ka o nahan kadeikung ao.
Jeroboam said to his wife, “Disguise yourself, in order that no one will recognize that you are my wife. Then go to Shiloh [city], where the prophet Ahijah [lives]. He is the one who predicted/prophesied that I would become the king of Israel.
3 Vaiyei 10 touh, vaiyei phen youn touh, khoitui um buet touh na sin vaiteh, profet koe cet haw. Camo dawk bangtelah ao han tie ahni ni a dei han telah a ti.
Take with you ten [loaves of] bread and some small flat cakes, and a jar of honey, [and give them] to him. [Tell him about] our son, [and] he will tell you what will happen to him.”
4 Jeroboam e a yu teh, a thaw teh, Shiloh kho dawk Ahijah im koe lah a cei. Hatnavah, Ahijah teh a matawng toung dawkvah, a mit amom toe.
So his wife went to Shiloh, to Ahijah’s house. Ahijah was unable to see, because he was very old and had become blind.
5 BAWIPA ni Ahijah koevah, khenhaw! Jeroboam e a yu teh a capa e kong dawk pouknae hei hanelah nang koevah a tho. Bangkongtetpawiteh, ahni teh a pataw. Ahni koe hettelah na dei pouh han. Ahni a tho toteh, napui alouke patetlah a kâsak han telah Ahijah koe atipouh.
But [before she got there, ] Yahweh told Ahijah that Jeroboam’s wife was coming to inquire about their son, who was very sick. And Yahweh told Ahijah what he should tell her. When she came to him, she pretended to be another woman.
6 Ahijah ni hottelah takhang dawk a kâen navah, a lamcei lawk a thai teh, Kâen haw, Jeroboam e yu, Bangkong alouke tami patetlah na kâsak. Lungmathoenae kamthang dei sak hanelah nang koe vah kai hah na patoun.
But when Ahijah heard her footsteps as she entered the doorway, he said to her, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! (Why do you pretend that you are someone else?/It will not help you to pretend that you are someone else.) [RHQ] [Yahweh] has given me bad news to tell you.
7 Cet nateh, Jeroboam koe, Isarel BAWIPA Cathut ni hettelah a dei. Taminaw thung hoi na rawi teh ka tami Isarelnaw kaukkung lah na hruek.
Go and tell Jeroboam that this is what Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship], says to you: ‘I chose you from among the common people and enabled you to become the king of my Israeli people.
8 Devit imthung hah uknaeram ka lawp teh nang koe na poe. Hatei, nang teh ka san Devit patetlah na awm hoeh. Ahni teh kaie kâpoelawknaw a tarawi. Ka hmaitung vah kahawi e hno dueng hah a sak telah a lungthin abuemlah kai koe a kâhnawng.
I took [most of] the kingdom of Israel away from David’s descendants and gave it to you. But you have not been like David, who served me [very well]. He obeyed all my commandments very sincerely, doing only things that I considered to be right.
9 Hatei, yampa e naw hlak vah, yonnae moi na sak. Bangkongtetpawiteh, ka lungkhuek nahanelah cathut alouke koe na kangheng teh, meikaphawk na sak teh, kai hah hnam na thun takhai.
But you have done more evil things/deeds than all those [who ruled] before you. You have rejected me, and you have caused me to become very angry by making metal images of other gods so that you [and others] could worship them.
10 Hatdawkvah, Jeroboam imthung dawk, rucatnae ka pha sak han. Isarel ram khonaw dawk, san thoseh, kahlout thoseh, Jeroboam catoun tongpa pueng ka thei han. Tami ni songnawng he a tâkhawng e patetlah kacawirae Jeroboam catoun hah ka tâkhawng han.
‘So, I am going to cause terrible things to happen to your family. I will cause all your male descendants to die, young ones and old ones. I will completely get rid of your family [MTY]. I will get rid of your family [MTY] just like a man completely burns dung [to cook his food].
11 Jeroboam catoun teh khopui thung dout pawiteh, a ro uinaw ni a ca han. Kho lawilah dout pawiteh, kalvan e tavanaw ni a ca awh han telah BAWIPA ni a dei toe.
[The corpses of] any members of your family who die in cities will be eaten by dogs. And [the corpses of] any members of your family who die in the open fields will be eaten by vultures. [This will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said [that it will happen].’
12 Thaw nateh na im cet lawih. Na khok ni khopui a kâen navah, camo teh a due han.
So go back home. And as soon as you enter the city, your son will die.
13 Isarelnaw ni a khui awh vaiteh, a pakawp awh han. Jeroboam imthungnaw dawk hote camo dueng doeh tangkom dawk pakawp e lah ao awh han. Bangkongtetpawiteh Jeroboam catoun dawk, haw e camo buet touh ni Isarel catoun e BAWIPA Cathut dawk lungthin ahawinae hmu e lah ao.
All the Israeli people will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one of Jeroboam’s family who will be buried [properly], because he is the only one of Jeroboam’s family with whom Yahweh is pleased.
14 BAWIPA ni ama hanelah, sahnin roeroe dawk Jeroboam imthung karaphoekung Isarel dawkvah siangpahrang ka tâco sak han. Nâtuek han nama atipouh navah, atu raw doeh toe a ti.
Furthermore, Yahweh will appoint for himself a king to rule over Israel who will get rid of Jeroboam’s descendants. And that [will start to happen] today!
15 Tui van lungpumkung kâhuen e patetlah BAWIPA ni Isarel a kahuet han. BAWIPA lungkhueknae thing meikaphawk a sak awh dawkvah, a mintoenaw koe a pha tangcoung e hah, kahawi e ram thung hoi Isarelnaw phawk vaiteh, tui namran lah be a kâkayei awh han.
Yahweh will punish the people of Israel; he will shake them like [the wind] shakes the reeds [that grow in] a stream. He will expel the Israeli people from this good land that he gave to our ancestors. He will scatter them into countries east of [the Euphrates] River, because they have caused him to become very angry by [worshiping statues of] the goddess Asherah.
16 Ama hai ka payon niteh, Isarel miphunnaw hai ka payon sak e, Jeroboam e yonnae kecu dawk Isarel miphunnaw ka pahnawt han telah a ti.
Yahweh will abandon the Israeli people because of the sins that Jeroboam committed, sins which led the Israeli people to commit them.”
17 Jeroboam e a yu a cei teh, Tirzah takhang koe a pha nah a ca teh a due.
Jeroboam’s wife returned home to Tirzah [city, the new capital of Israel]. And just as she entered her house, her son died.
18 BAWIPA ni a san profet Ahijah lahoi a dei e patetlah camo hah a pakawp awh teh, Isarelnaw teh a khuika awh.
All the Israeli people mourned for him and buried him, which is what Yahweh had told his servant, the prophet Ahijah, would happen.
19 Jeroboam ni a sak e kaawm rae naw, tarantuknae, a uknae naw tie a kong hah Isarel siangpahrangnaw setouknae cauk dawk thut lah ao nahoehmaw.
Everything else that Jeroboam did, and the record of wars that his [army] fought, and how he ruled, is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel’.
20 Jeroboam ni kum 22 touh a uk hnukkhu, mintoenaw hoi rei a i awh. A capa Nadab ni ahni yueng lah a uk.
Jeroboam ruled for 22 years; then he died [EUP] and his son Nadab became king.
21 Solomon e capa Rehoboam ni Judah ram hah a uk. Uk a kamtawng nah a kum 41 touh a pha. BAWIPA ni a min ao nahanelah, Isarel kho ram thung hoi e Jerusalem kho dawk kum 17 touh a uk. A manu e min teh Naamah, Ammon tami doeh.
Solomon’s son Rehoboam ruled Judah. He was 41 years old when he started to rule, and he ruled for 17 years. He ruled in Jerusalem, which is the city that Yahweh chose out of all the tribes of Israel to be the place where he should be worshiped [MTY]. Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah; she was from the Ammon people-group.
22 Judahnaw ni BAWIPA e hmaitung vah yonnae a sak awh teh, mintoenaw a payon awh e hlak payonnae yon lahoi lungkhueknae a kampai sak awh.
The people of Judah did things that Yahweh considered to be evil. They caused him to become angry because they committed more sins than their ancestors had committed: They worshiped many other gods instead of worshiping only Yahweh.
23 Karasangpoung e mon naw thoseh, kahring e thingkungnaw rahim thoseh, monruinaw, meikaphawknaw, Asherahkungnaw thoseh a sak awh.
They built places to worship those gods; on high hills, and under big trees they set up [stone] pillars to worship the goddess Asherah.
24 Judah ram dawk napuitongpa moikapap lah ao teh, Isarelnaw e hmaitung BAWIPA ni a hruek awh e miphunnaw ni, a sak awh e hno panuettho e naw a sak awh.
Also, there were male prostitutes at these places of worship. The Israeli people did the same disgraceful things that had been done by the people whom Yahweh had expelled while the Israelis were advancing through the land.
25 Siangpahrang Rehoboam a uknae kum 15 nae dawk vah, Izip siangpahrang Shishak hah Jerusalem kho tuk hanlah a tho.
When Rehoboam had been ruling for almost five years, King Shishak of Egypt came [with his army] to attack Jerusalem.
26 Bawkim dawk e hnonaw hoi siangpahrang im e hnonaw a la awh. Solomon ni a sak e sui saiphei pueng a la pouh.
They took away all the valuable things in the temple and in the king’s palace, including the gold shields that Solomon’s [workers] had made.
27 Siangpahrang Rehoboam ni suisaiphei yueng lah rahum saiphei naw a sak teh, siangpahrang im takhang ka ring e koe a kuem sak.
King Rehoboam’s [workers] made bronze shields to replace them and entrusted them to officers who guarded the entrance to the king’s palace.
28 Siangpahrang ni BAWIPA e im dawk a cei na tangkuem karingkungnaw ni saiphei a sin awh teh, karingkungnaw a onae koe bout a hruek awh han.
Every time that the king went into the temple, those guards carried those shields; and [when he left the temple] they returned the shields to the storeroom.
29 Rehoboam ni a sak e thung dawk hoi kaawm rae naw hoi a sak e pueng siangpahrangnaw setouknae cauk dawk a thut awh nahoehmaw.
Everything else that Rehoboam did is written [RHQ] in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.
30 Rehoboam hoi Jeroboam a hringyung thung a rahak vah kâtuknae ao.
There were wars continually between [the armies of] Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
31 Rehoboam hai a mintoenaw koe a i teh, Devit kho dawk ahnimouh hoi rei pakawp e lah ao. A manu min teh Ammon Naamah doeh. A capa Abijam ni a na pa yueng lah a uk.
Then Rehoboam died [EUP], and he was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’, where his ancestors were buried. Then his son Abijah became the king.
