The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible
Old Testament
Read each verse in English beside its African Kalanga equivalent.
1 Samuel 31English
1 Samuwele 31African Kalanga
- English1
Now the Philistines fought against Israel; the Israelites fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
African KalangaNgwenu Bafilisitiya bakabhayana ne Baiziraela, Baiziraela bakatizha mbeli kwabo, bunji gukabulaigwa mu Dombo le Gilibhowa.
- English2
The Philistines pressed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua.
African KalangaBafilisitiya bakakulila Saulo ne bakololo babe kwazo, bakabulaya bakololo babe Jonatani na Abinadabu na Malikishuwa.
- English3
The fighting grew fierce around Saul, and when the archers overtook him, they wounded him critically.
African KalangaNgwa yakakulila Saulo kunotjisa, kwakati baposi be misebe ben'wana bakankubadza kubiibi.
- English4
Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and run me through and abuse me.” But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it; so Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
African KalangaSaulo kadwa nsengi we zwibhayano zwizwe kati, “Dusa thumo lilo undibhaye ndilo, ndisidwe ndizha ndibulawa nge bathu ibaba basakathumbigwa nge kundidziyidza.” Koga nsengi we zwibhayano zwizwe katja, kasitongokuthama, Saulo kabe etola thumo lile ezwiligila pezhugwi kwalo.
- African Kalanga
Kwakati nsengi we zwibhayano ebona kuti Saulo wafa, kazwiligilabo mu thumo ebe efabo.
- English6
So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together that same day.
African KalangaNdizo Saulo ne bakololo babe batatu ne nsengi we zwibhayano zwizwe ne bathu babe bose bakafa bose mu zhuba ilelo.
- English7
When the Israelites along the valley and those across the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.
African KalangaKwakati Baiziraela bakabe bali seli kwe nkuku ne bakabe bali seli kwe Jorodani, bebona kuti babhayani be Iziraela batizha kakale Saulo ne bakololo babe bafa, bakatizha bakasiya mizi yabo. Ngono Bafilisitiya bakazha bakagala muili.
- English8
The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
African KalangaKukati tjimuka, Bafilisitiya bezha kuwombula zwitumbu, bakawana Saulo ne bakololo babe batatu bakafila mu Dombo le Gilibhowa.
- English9
They cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and they sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their people.
African KalangaBakanthubula nsholo, bakambula zwiambalo zwe ngwa, bakatuma batumwa mu shango yose kunosumikila thawu mu ng'umba dze minamato dze midzimu yabo ne mu bathu babo.
- English10
They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
African KalangaBakabiga zwibhayano zwizwe mu ng'umba ye minamato ya Ashitoreti, bakasungilila mbili uwe mu guma le Bhetishani.
- African Kalanga
Kukati bathu be Jabeshi Giliyadi bewha ngekwe tjakashingwa nge Bafilisitiya muna Saulo,
- English12
all their valiant men journeyed through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned them.
African Kalangabalume bose bana tjilopa bakamilika, bakalala beyenda busiku gose, bakanotulula zwitumbu zwa Saulo ne bakololo babe mu guma le Bhetishani, bakayenda ku Jabeshi, bakanozwipisilako.
- English13
Then they took their bones and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
African KalangaNdizo bakatola mafupa abo bakanoabiganya ku Jabeshi kusi kwe nti unoyi tamarisiki, bebe bezwinyima zojiwa mazhuba ali kutendeka.
Source: The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible, Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo, 2026. This online edition was extracted and reformatted from the PDF edition. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.