1 Ahemfo 14

1 Saa ɛberɛ no, Yeroboam babarima Abia yaree dendeenden.

At that time was Abijah son of Jeroboam sick,

2 Enti, Yeroboam ka kyerɛɛ ne yere sɛ, “Sesa wo ho, sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, obiara renhunu wo sɛ wone ɔhemmaa no. Na kɔ odiyifoɔ Ahiya, ɔbarima a ɔka kyerɛɛ me sɛ mɛdi ɔhene no, nkyɛn wɔ Silo.

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 Fa burodo mua edu, ɔfam ne ɛwoɔ akɔtoa kɔkyɛ no, na bisa no deɛ ɛbɛba abarimaa no so.”

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 Na Yeroboam yere no kɔɔ Ahiya fie wɔ Silo. Saa ɛberɛ no na wabɔ akɔkoraa a ɔnhunu adeɛ.

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 Nanso, na Awurade aka akyerɛ Ahiya sɛ, “Yeroboam yere bɛba ha, na ɔbɛhyɛ da ayɛ ne ho sɛ obi foforɔ. Ɔbɛbisa wo ne babarima no ho asɛm, ɛfiri sɛ, ɔyare dendeenden. Sɛ ɛba saa a, fa mmuaeɛ a mede bɛma wo no ma no.”

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 Na Ahiya tee ne nan ase wɔ ɛpono ano no, ɔfrɛɛ sɛ, “Yeroboam yere, bra mu! Adɛn enti na woahyɛ da ayɛ wo ho sɛ obi foforɔ?” Na ɔka kyerɛɛ no sɛ, “Mewɔ asɛmmɔne ka kyerɛ wo.

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 Fa saa nkra yi a ɛfiri Awurade, Israel Onyankopɔn, nkyɛn kɔma wo kunu Yeroboam sɛ, ‘Mepagyaa wo firi mpapahwekwaa mu, de wo bɛsii me nkurɔfoɔ Israel so ɔhene.

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 Metuu ahemman no ase firii Dawid fie, de maa wo. Nanso, woammu wo bra, te sɛ me ɔsomfoɔ Dawid a ɔdii mʼahyɛdeɛ so a ɔde nʼakoma nyinaa dii mʼakyi, na daa ɔyɛɛ biribiara a mepɛ sɛ ɔyɛ no.

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 Bɔne a woayɛ no dɔɔso kyɛn wɔn a wɔtenaa ase ansa na wɔrewo woɔ no. Woayɛ anyame afoforɔ ma ɛnam so ama me bo afu wo, wo sikakɔkɔɔ nantwie mma no enti. Na ɛsiane sɛ woadane wʼakyi akyerɛ me enti,

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 mede amanehunu bɛba wo fie ahennie nnidisoɔ so, na makum wo mmammarima nyinaa, akoa ne deɛ ɔdi ne ho so nso. Mɛhye wʼahennie nnidisoɔ no ase, sɛdeɛ obi hye wura ma aseɛ tu koraa no.

'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 Me, Awurade, meka ntam sɛ, wo fiefoɔ a wɔbɛwuwu wɔ kuro no mu no, nkraman na wɔbɛwe wɔn ɛnam, na wɔn a wɔbɛwuwu wiram no nso, apete na wɔbɛsosɔ wɔn ɛnam.’”

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 Na Ahiya ka kyerɛɛ Yeroboam yere sɛ, “Kɔ efie, na sɛ wowura kuro no mu ara pɛ a, abɔfra no bɛwu.

'And thou, rise, go to thy house; in the going in of thy feet to the city — hath the lad died;

13 Na Israel nyinaa bɛsu no, na wɔasie no. Ɔno nko ne onipa a ɔfiri mo fie a wɔbɛsie no yie, na saa abɔfra no nko na Awurade, Israel Onyankopɔn, hunu no sɛ ade pa wɔ Yeroboam fiefoɔ nyinaa mu.

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 Na Awurade bɛpagya ɔhene adi Israel so. Ɔno na ɔbɛtɔre Yeroboam fiefoɔ ase. Saa asɛm no bɛsi ɛnnɛ yi ara, saa dɔnhwereɛ yi ara mu.

'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 Na Awurade bɛwoso Israel te sɛ sibire a ɛhinhim wɔ asuwa ani. Ɔbɛtutu Israelfoɔ ase afiri saa asase pa a ɔde maa wɔn agyanom no so. Na ɔbɛbɔ wɔn apete, atra Asubɔnten Eufrate, ɛfiri sɛ, wɔnam som a wɔsom Asera afɔrebukyia no so ahyɛ Awurade abufuo.

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 Ɔbɛto Israel asaworam, ɛfiri sɛ, Yeroboam yɛɛ bɔne, nam so maa Israel nyinaa ne no yɛɛ bɔne.”

and He giveth up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin.'

17 Na Yeroboam yere sane kɔɔ Tirsa. Na ɛberɛ a ɔwuraa ne fie no, abɔfra no wuiɛ.

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 Ɛberɛ a Israelfoɔ siee no no, wɔsuu no sɛdeɛ Awurade nam odiyifoɔ Ahiya so hyɛeɛ no.

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 Yeroboam ahennie ho nsɛm nkaeɛ, nʼakodie nyinaa ne ɛkwan a ɔfaa so buu ɔman no nyinaa no, wɔatwerɛ agu Israel Ahemfo Abakɔsɛm Nwoma Mu.

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 Yeroboam dii adeɛ wɔ Israel mfeɛ aduonu mmienu. Ɔwuiɛ no, ne babarima Nadab na ɔdii nʼadeɛ sɛ ɔhene.

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 Na Salomo babarima Rehoboam na na ɔdi ɔhene wɔ Yuda. Ɛberɛ a ɔdii adeɛ no, na wadi mfeɛ aduanan baako, na ɔdii adeɛ mfeɛ dunson wɔ Yerusalem, kuro a na Awurade ayi wɔ Israel mmusuakuo no nyinaa mu, sɛ ɔde rehyɛ ne din animuonyam. Na Rehoboam maame din de Naama a ɔyɛ Amonni.

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 Ɛberɛ a na Rehoboam di adeɛ no, nnipa a wɔwɔ Yuda no yɛɛ bɔne Awurade anim, maa ne bo fuu wɔ wɔn bɔne no ho. Na saa bɔne no sene deɛ wɔn agyanom no yɛeɛ mpo.

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 Wɔsisii abosomfie, gyinaa nnannua a wɔate ho ne Asera afɔrebukyia wɔ bepɔ biara so ne dutan frɔmfrɔm biara ase.

And they build — also they — for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;

24 Mpo, na abosomfie mmarima nnwamanfoɔ wɔ asase no so mmaa nyinaa. Nnipa no suasuaa akyiwadeɛ ahodoɔ a amanaman a wɔsom abosom no yɛeɛ enti a Awurade pamoo wɔn firii asase no so maa Israelfoɔ no.

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 Rehoboam dii adeɛ ne mfeɛ enum so no, Misraimhene Sisak bɛto hyɛɛ Yerusalem so.

And it cometh to pass, in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, gone up hath Shishak king of Egypt against Jerusalem,

26 Ɔbɔ wuraa Awurade Asɔredan no mu ne ahemfie hɔ baabiara, wiaa biribiara a sikakɔkɔɔ akyɛm a Salomo yɛeɛ no ka ho.

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 Akyire yi, Rehoboam yɛɛ kɔbere akyɛm de sii anan, na ɔde hyɛɛ ahemfie awɛmfoɔ no nsa sɛ wɔnhwɛ so.

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 Ɛberɛ biara a ɔhene no kɔ Awurade Asɔredan mu hɔ no, awɛmfoɔ no soa kɔ hɔ bi, na sɛ ɔwie na ɔreba a, wɔsane de bɛgu awɛmfoɔ ɛdan no mu.

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 Na Rehoboam ahennie ho nsɛm nkaeɛ no ne dwuma a ɔdiiɛ no deɛ, wɔatwerɛ ne nyinaa wɔ Yuda Ahemfo Abakɔsɛm Nwoma no mu.

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 Daa na ɔko da Rehoboam ne Yeroboam ntam.

And war hath been between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days;

31 Ɛberɛ a Rehoboam wuiɛ no, wɔsiee no wɔ nʼagyanom koraberɛ wɔ Dawid kurom. Na ne maame din de Naama a ɔyɛ Amonni baa. Afei, ne babarima a ne din de Abiyam na ɔdii nʼadeɛ sɛ ɔhene.

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.