The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible
Old Testament
Read each verse in English beside its African Kalanga equivalent.
2 Chronicles 15English
2 Zwiyitikalo 15African Kalanga
- African Kalanga
Meya ye Ndzimu ikazha muna Azariya nkololo wa Odedi,
- English2
He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
African Kalangangono kayenda kunoshanganidza Asa ngono kati, “Munditeedze, iwe Asa ne Bajuta ne Babhenjamini! Yahwe banamwi ha imwi munabo. Amubashaka banowothama kuti mubabone koga amubafupatila banowomufupatilabo.
- English3
For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law.
African KalangaKwakabe tjibaka tjilefu Baiziraela basina Ndzimu we lebeswa kakale basina bapirisiti kubadiya kakale basina nlayo.
- English4
But in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, and he was found by them.
African KalangaKoga bakati mu mang'oni abo bakashandukila kuna Yahwe Ndzimu we Iziraela, beshaka Yahwe ngono bakabawana.
- English5
In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil.
African KalangaMu mazhuba iyawo kwakabe kusina mbakiso kuna unobhuda kene unongina ngoti kwakabe kuna zwinoloba zebe pamwe ne pamwe mu bagali bose be shango.
- English6
One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress.
African KalangaBakabe bakathubukana, itjaba tjakabe tjilobesa tjimwe itjaba, nzi nkulu naiwo ulobesa mmwe nzi nkulu ngoti Ndzimu wakabe ubadziyidza nge mang'oni wose koga.
- African Kalanga
Koga makafanila kuti musime musitongo temeka mafupa. Nshingo wamunoshinga unowobe ne mbhailo.”
- English8
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage. He removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hills of Ephraim. He repaired the altar of the Lord that was in front of the portico of the Lord’s temple.
African KalangaAsa wakati ewha matama iyawa ne bulebesambeli gwa Azariya nkololo wa Odedi kabe ne tjilopa ngono kadusila kutjena midzimu inoshimisa mu shango yose ye Juda ne Bhenjamini ne mu mizi mikulu yaakabe atapa ye shango ye matombo ye Ifureimi. Ipapo kamusa tjibeso tjinopisigwa zwibhayilo tja Yahwe tjakabe tjili mbeli kwe ng'umba ye kutanga ye Ng'umba ya Yahwe.
- English9
Then he assembled all Judah and Benjamin and the people from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who had settled among them, for large numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
African KalangaWakakubunganya Bajuda ne Babhenjamini bose bakabe bedwa ku Ifureimi ne Manase ne Simiyoni bakabe begala nabo ngoti bunji gwe Baiziraela bakabe banyelukila kuna Asa bebona kuti Yahwe Ndzimu uwe banaye.
- African Kalanga
Bakanokubungana ku Jerusalema mu mwedzi we butatu we gole le bugumi lina bushanu le mbuso wa Asa.
- English11
At that time they sacrificed to the Lord seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep and goats from the plunder they had brought back.
African KalangaNgono mu zhuba ilelo bakadusila Yahwe zwibhayilo bezwitola mu thundu yabakatapa ngono bakadusa ngabe dzili mazana ali kutendeka (700) ne pkhwizi ne mbudzi dzili zwiwulu zwili kutendeka (7 000).
- English12
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.
African KalangaNgono bakathama tjidumano tjekuti bashake Yahwe Ndzimu wa bobatategulu babo nge mimoyo yabo yose nenge meya dzabo dzose.
- English13
All who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.
African KalangaNgono ani kene ani unowolamba shaka Yahwe Ndzimu we Iziraela wakabe akafanila kuti abulawe whola kene ntjetjana ali nlume kene nkadzi.
- English14
They took an oath to the Lord with loud acclamation, with shouting and with trumpets and horns.
African KalangaNgono bakamilidzila mawhi abo pezhugwi bakatuna kuna Yahwe kuti banowolondolodza tjidumano itjetji ngono bakamilidza mawhi belidza nyanga.
- English15
All Judah rejoiced about the oath because they had sworn it wholeheartedly. They sought God eagerly, and he was found by them. So the Lord gave them rest on every side.
African KalangaBose be Juda bakabe bakashatha ngoti bathama tjidumano itjetji nge mimoyo yabo yose. Bakashathila kunamata Yahwe ngono Yahwe bakabaamutjila ngono bakabapa kunyalala mu magalo wose, shango dzikasitjagwe nabo.
- English16
King Asa also deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive Asherah pole. Asa cut the pole down, broke it up and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
African KalangaNanga kuku babe Maaka, Asa wakabadusa mu bumambokadzi ngoti bakabe bathama kunoshimisa ngothama ifano tje ndzimukadzi Ashera. Asa kakolomola ifano katji pkhwanya katjitemelela zwipithu pithu, katjipisila mu nkuku we Kidironi.
- English17
Although he did not remove the high places from Israel, Asa’s heart was fully committed to the Lord all his life.
African KalangaNenguba Asa asakakolomodza magalo wose magalo apezhugwi ekunamata e midzimu mu Iziraela, moyo uwe wakabe wakatambunuka mu mazhuba awe wose.
- English18
He brought into the temple of God the silver and gold and the articles that he and his father had dedicated.
African KalangaNgono wakazhisa ku Ng'umba ye Ndzimu zwipo zwakayengemala zwa tate babe kose ne zwizwe, zwipo zwe siliva ne golide ne zwimwe zwija.
- African Kalanga
Kwakagala makole angabe makumi matatu ana bushanu (35) e mbuso wa Asa kusina ngwa.
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.