He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshiped.
A a ri ni malembe ya 41 loko a nyikiwa vuhosi, a fuma malembe ya 17 a ri eYerusalema, wu nga muti lowu HOSI Xikwembu xi wu hlawuleke exikarhi ka miti hinkwayo ya tinyimba ta Israele, leswaku wu va muti lowu xi gandzeriwaka eka wona.