5 Yeke wathi, ‘Ngesizathweso indoda izakutjhiya uyise nonina inamathele kumkayo, nje-ke ababilaba baba yinyama yinye.’
Ihliziywakhe yanamathela kuDina indodakazi kaJakopo, wamthanda wabe wamsomasoma.
Ngibuhlungu ngawe mfowethu Jonathani, bewuligugu kimi! Ukungikhathalela kwakho bekukarisa ukudlula kwabantu bengubo.
Bekungebezizwe uSomnini uZimu athi kuma-Israyeli ngazo: “Ningalingi nihlanganyele nazo ngombana zizakuyengela iinhliziyo zenu kibosingazimu bazo.” Nanyana kunjalo uSolomoni wanamathela ebafazinabo ngethando.
Amakhosazana azihlobise ngobuphaziphazi bakho, ngesidleni sakho kujame indlovukazi, ihlobe ngegolide le-Ofiri.
Ngambala wena ube lisizo lami, emthunzini wamaphikwakho ngiyahlokoma.
Azange enze indoda nomfazi baba munye na? Ubagade angenza abantu ababili abahlukileko. Kubayini-ke abenze baba munye? Kungombana ubagade afuna ukubumba isizukulwana esethembekileko kuZimu. Nje-ke zilondeni nimunye njalo njengokubunjwa kwenu, ungamlahli umfazakho weenkomo.
Ngaleyondlela abasesebabili, kodwana banye. Yeke okuhlanganiswe nguZimu, akungabikhona umuntu okwahlukanisako.”
Ithando alibe ngelamambala; nyenyani ubumbi, nikakarele kokuhle.
Kghani anazi bona loyo ozihlanganisa nengwadla uba nyamanye nayo na? Angithi kuthiwa: “Ababili bazakuba nyamanye.”
kodwana ngebanga lobufebe esele bandile, kuhle bona leyo naleyo ndoda ibe nomfazi wayo, nomfazi abe nendoda yakhe.
Umfazi akanalo igunya phezu komzimba wakhe, kodwana yindoda enalo; ngokunjalo nendoda ayinalo igunya phezu komzimba wayo, kodwana mfazi onalo.
“Ngalokho-ke indoda izokutjhiya uyise nonina inamathele kumkayo, nje-ke ababili labo babe nyamanye.”
Nesabe uSomnini uZimenu, nimlotjhe beninamathele kuye, nifunge ngebizo lakhe.
Naniwulonda ngokupheleleko woke umyalo enginiyala bona niwenze, nikhathalele uSomnini uZimenu, nikhambe eendleleni zakhe zoke benikakarele kuye,
kodwana nina enakakarela kuSomnini uZimenu, noke nisaphila nanamhlanje.
Kusukela mhlokho uSawula akhange asavuma bona uDavida abuyele endlini kayise kodwana wamenza bona ahlale naye. Emva kobana uDavida aqede ukukhuluma noSawula, ihliziyo kaJonathani yanamathela kuDavida ngombana wamkhathalela njengombana azikhathalela yena.
UDavida wathatha no-Arhinowami weJizriyela, bobabili baba bomkakhe.