12 Sawula wakhuluma ku-Ahimeleki, watsi: “Lalela-ke, msa wa-Ahitubi.” Waphendvula watsi: “Yebo, nkhosi yami.”
Watsi kube agucuke angibone, wamemeta, mine ngabuta ngatsi: ‘Yini nje lengingayenta?’
Watsi Mefiboshethi, umsa waJonathani, lotalwa nguSawula, nefika kuDavide, wakhotsama, akhombisa kumhlonipha. Davide watsi: “Mefiboshethi!” Mefiboshethi watsi: “Ngiyinceku yakho.”
Simakadze utsi: “Ngatembula kulabo lababengazange bangicele, ngatfolwa ngulabo lababengazange sebangifune. Esiveni lesingazange silibite Libito lami, ngatsi: ‘Ngilapha, ngilapha.’
Inkhosi yatfumela kutsi akulandvwe umphristi Ahimeleki, umsa wa-Ahitubi, nendlu yeyise yonkhe, lebekunguyona ibaphristi baseNobi; beta bonkhe enkhosini.
Sawula watsi kuye: “Ningibopheleleni lisu wena nendvodzana yaJese, ngekutsi umnike sinkhwa nenkemba, waze wambutela nakuNkulunkulu, kuze amelane nami, angilalele endleleni, njengobe enta lamuhla?”
Sawula wakhuluma kuto watsi: “Lalelani, madvodza akaBhenjamini! Indvodzana yaJese itaninika nonkhe yini emasimi netivini? Itanenta nonkhe yini kutsi nibe tindvuna tetinkhulungwane netindvuna temakhulu?