Sedekiya, mora wa Kenaneya, o ne a iketseditse dinaka tsa tshepe, mme a re: “Morena o bua tjena: ‘Ka dinaka tsena o tla sututsa Baarame, ho fihlela o ba timetsa.’ ”
Mehleng ya Peka, kgosi ya Iseraele, Tigelate-Pilesere, kgosi ya Asiria, a futuha, mme a thopa batho ba Ione, le ba Abele-Bete-Maaka, le ba Janowa, le ba Kedeshe, le ba Hasore, le ba Gileade, le ba Galelea, le ba naha yohle ya Nafthali, a ba isa Asiria.
“Howeletsa hape, o re: Morena wa mabotho o bua tjena: ‘Metse ya ka e tla boela e eba le nala, Morena a tshedise Sione hape, a boele a ikgethele Jerusalema.’ ”
Ka botsa lengeloi le neng le bua le nna, ka re: “Dintho tsee ke ding?” Lengeloi la nkaraba, la re: “Tsena ke dinaka tse qhalantseng Juda le Iseraele le Jerusalema.”
Ha ke tadima hodimo ka bona basadi ba babedi ba etla ba fofa, mapheo a bona a kang a mokotatsle a kgile moya. Basadi bana ba phahamisetsa morifi ona hodimo.
Yare ha Joshua a le Jeriko a phahamisa mahlo, a tadima, mme a bona monna ya emeng kapele ho yena, a tshwere sabole. Joshua a ya ho yena, mme a re ho yena: “O wa habo rona, kapa o wa direng?”