2 Davide wabuta kuSimakadze watsi: “Ngihambe yini ngiyewuhlasela lamaFilisti?” Simakadze wamphendvula watsi: “Hamba uyewuhlasela emaFilisti, usindzise iKheyila.”
Emvakwesikhatsi Davide wabuta kuSimakadze, watsi: “Kufanele yini ngenyuke kuyawutsatsa lelinye lalamadolobha akaJuda?” Simakadze watsi: “Yenyuka.” Davide wabuta watsi: “Kufanele ngiye kuphi?” Simakadze wamphendvula watsi: “EHebroni.”
Ngako Davide wabuta kuSimakadze, watsi: “Kufanele yini ngihambe kuyawuhlasela lamaFilisti? Utawanikela yini esandleni sami?” Simakadze wamphendvula watsi: “Yebo, hamba, ngobe nakanjani emaFilisti ngitawanikela esandleni sakho.”
Ngako Davide wabuta kuSimakadze, lowaphendvula watsi: “Ungenyukeli lapho, kodvwa tungeleta ngemuva kwawo, bese uwahlasela ngembili kwetihlahla tebhalisamu.
Ngako Davide wabuta kuNkulunkulu, watsi: “Kufanele yini ngihambe kuyawuhlasela lamaFilisti? Utakuwanikela yini esandleni sami?” Simakadze wamphendvula watsi: “Yebo, hamba, ngobe ngitawanikela esandleni sakho.”
Simakadze utsi: “Mine ngiyawukufundzisa ngikukhombise indlela lofanele kuhamba ngayo, ngikweluleke, liso lami lingesuki kuwe.
Awu, Simakadze, ngiyati kutsi kute umuntfu lotiphatsele yena imphilo yakhe. Akusiko kwemuntfu kutsi aticondzisele yena tinyatselo takhe.
Utakuma embikwa-Eleyazare, umphristi, lotamtsatsela tincumo latitfole nge-Urimu kuSimakadze. Ngekukhuluma kwakhe yena nesive sonkhe sema-Israyeli bayawuphuma baphindze bangene njengekuyala kwakhe.”
Emadvodza aka-Israyeli ayihlola lemiphako yawo, kodvwa akazange abute lutfo kuSimakadze.
Emvakwekufa kwaJoshuwa, ema-Israyeli abuta Simakadze, atsi: “Ngubani lotakwenyuka kucala ayekusilwela nemaKhenani?”
Ngako baphindza babutisisa kuSimakadze, batsi: “Kungabe lomuntfu sewufikile yini lapha?” Simakadze wabaphendvula watsi: “Yebo, sewufikile, mane ubhace emkhatsini wemitfwalo.”
Sawula wase ubuta Nkulunkulu, watsi: “Ngingehla yini ngicoshe emaFilisti? Utawanikela yini esandleni sema-Israyeli?” Kodvwa Nkulunkulu akazange amphendvule ngalelo langa.
Kodvwa emadvodza aDavide akhuluma kuye, atsi: “Lapha kaJuda siyesaba, kangakanani-ke nase sisukela iKheyila siyewuhlaselana nemabutfo emaFilisti.”
Davide waphindza futsi wabutisisa kuSimakadze. Simakadze wamphendvula watsi: “Yehla uye eKheyila, ngobe emaFilisti ngiwanikela esandleni sakho.”
Abiyatha, umsa wa Ahimeleki, abete nesidziya sebaphristi ngesikhatsi abalekela kuDavide eKheyila.
Davide wabuta kuSimakadze watsi: “Ngibacoshe yini labatfumbi? Ngitabakhandza yini?” Simakadze watsi: “Bacoshe, utabakhandza nome kanjani, futsi utawukhona kukubuyisa loku labakutfumbile.”