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4 Asi pashure pekunge Ehudhi afa, vaIsraeri vakaitazve zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha.+ 2 Saka Jehovha akavatengesa muruoko rwaJabhini mambo weKenani,+ aitonga muHazori. Mukuru weuto rake aiva Sisera, uyo aigara muHarosheti+ yaiva yemamwe marudzi.* 3 VaIsraeri vakachema kuna Jehovha,+ nekuti Jabhini aiva nengoro dzehondo 900 dzaiva nemajeko esimbi,*+ uye akadzvinyirira vaIsraeri achivaitira utsinye+ kwemakore 20.
4 Zvino Dhibhora, muprofitakadzi,+ mudzimai waRapidhoti, aitonga Israeri panguva iyoyo. 5 Aiwanzoenda kunogara pasi pemuti wemuchindwe waDhibhora, pakati peRama+ neBheteri,+ munyika ine makomo yaEfremu; vaIsraeri vaienda kwaari kunotongwa. 6 Akatuma nhume kunoshevedza Bheraki+ mwanakomana waAbhinoamu kubva kuKedheshi-naftari,+ akati kwaari: “Jehovha Mwari waIsraeri ndiye apa murayiro uyu wekuti, ‘Endai kuGomo reTabhori,* uye tora varume 10 000 vekwaNaftari nekwaZebhuroni uende navo. 7 Ndichaita kuti Sisera, mukuru weuto raJabhini auye kwauri pamwe chete nengoro dzake dzehondo neuto rake kurukova rwaKishoni,+ uye ndichamuisa muruoko rwako.’”+
8 Bheraki akabva ati kwaari: “Kana muchienda neni, ndinoenda, asi kana musingaendi neni, handiendi.” 9 Iye akati: “Chokwadi ndichaenda newe. Asi hondo yauri kuenda kunorwa haisi kuzoita kuti ukudzwe, nekuti Jehovha achaisa Sisera muruoko rwemukadzi.”+ Dhibhora akabva asimuka, akaenda naBheraki kuKedheshi.+ 10 Bheraki akaunganidza vanhu vekwaZebhuroni nevekwaNaftari+ kuKedheshi, uye varume 10 000 vakamutevera. Dhibhora akaendawo naye.
11 Sezvineiwo, Hebheri muKeni akanga aparadzana nevamwe vaKeni,+ vanhu vekwaHobhabhu, uyo aiva tezvara vaMozisi,+ uye tende rake raiva rakadzikwa pedyo nemuti mukuru muZaananimu, iri kuKedheshi.
12 Vakaudza Sisera kuti Bheraki mwanakomana waAbhinoamu akanga akwidza kuGomo reTabhori.+ 13 Sisera akabva angounganidza ngoro dzake dzese dzehondo, ngoro 900 dzaiva nemajeko esimbi,* neuto rese raaiva naro muHarosheti yemamwe marudzi kuti vaende kurukova rwaKishoni.+ 14 Zvino Dhibhora akati kuna Bheraki: “Simuka, nekuti nhasi ndiro zuva richaiswa Sisera muruoko rwako naJehovha. Jehovha haasi kuenda ari mberi kwako here?” Bheraki akabva aburuka muGomo reTabhori aine varume 10 000. 15 Jehovha akabva avhiringidza Sisera nengoro dzake dzese dzehondo neuto rese+ pamberi paBheraki. Sisera akazoburuka mungoro yake akatiza netsoka. 16 Bheraki akadzingirira ngoro dzehondo neuto racho kusvika kuHarosheti yemamwe marudzi. Saka uto rese raSisera rakaurayiwa nebakatwa; hapana kana akasara.+
17 Asi Sisera akatiza netsoka achienda kutende raJaeri+ mudzimai waHebheri+ muKeni, nekuti paiva nerugare pakati paJabhini+ mambo weHazori neimba yaHebheri muKeni. 18 Jaeri akabva abuda kunochingura Sisera, akati kwaari: “Pindai ishe wangu, pindai muno. Musatya.” Saka akapinda mutende rake akamufukidza negumbeze. 19 Sisera akabva ati kwaari: “Ndapota, ndipewo mvura shoma yekunwa, nekuti ndine nyota.” Saka akavhura homwe yedehwe yaiva nemukaka, akamupa kuti anwe,+ achibva amufukidza zvakare. 20 Akati kwaari: “Mira pasuo retende, uye kana pakauya munhu okubvunza kuti, ‘Pane murume ari pano here?’ uti, ‘Aiwa!’”
21 Asi Jaeri mudzimai waHebheri akatora hoko yetende nesando. Zvino murume wacho paakanga akafa zvake nehope uye akarukutika, Jaeri akanyahwaira achienda paaiva, akarovera hoko yacho nechepamberi penzeve yake, ikabuda nekuseri ichinobaya pasi, achibva afa.+
22 Bheraki akaenda ikoko achitsvaga Sisera, uye Jaeri akabuda kunomuchingura akati kwaari: “Uyai ndikuratidzei murume wamuri kutsvaga.” Saka akapinda naye mutende akaona Sisera akati rabada akafa, hoko iri mumusoro make.
23 Saka zuva iroro, Mwari akaita kuti vaIsraeri vakunde Jabhini mambo weKenani.+ 24 Ruoko rwevaIsraeri rwakaramba ruchiwedzera kuva nesimba pamusoro paJabhini mambo weKenani,+ kusvikira vaparadza Jabhini mambo weKenani.+