2 Whakapapa.
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Kātahi te iwi katoa o Hūrā ka mau ki a Utia, kotahi tekau mā ono nei ōna tau, ā, meinga ana hei kīngi i muri i tōna pāpā, i a Amatia. 
Nā, tēnei i hanga Eroto, ā, whakahokia ana ki a Hūrā, i muri i te moenga o te kīngi ki ōna mātua. 
Kotahi tekau mā ono ngā tau o Utia i tōna kīngitanga, ā, e rima tekau mā rua ōna tau i kīngi ai ia ki Hiruhārama; ā, ko te ingoa o tōna whaea, ko Iekoria, nō Hiruhārama. 
I tika tāna mahi ki te titiro a Ihowā, i rite ki ngā mea katoa i mea ai tōna pāpā, a Amatia. 
I rapua e ia tā te Atua i ngā rā o Hakaraia, he tangata mōhio tērā i ngā whakakitenga mai a te Atua. Nā, i ngā rā i rapua ai e ia tā Ihowā, ka meinga ia e te Atua kia kake. 
I haere anō ia ki te whawhai ki ngā Pirihitini, ā, wāwāhia ana e ia te taiepa o Kāta, me te taiepa o Iapane, me te taiepa o Aharoro; ā, hangā ana e ia ētahi pā ki te whenua o Aharoro, ki roto hoki i ngā Pirihitini. 
Ā, i āwhinatia ia e te Atua i te whawhai ki ngā Pirihitini, ki ngā Ārapi i noho ki Kurupaara, rātou ko ngā Meunimi. 
Ā, hōmai ana e ngā Āmoni he hākari ki a Utia; pakū ana hoki tōna ingoa ā tae noa ki te tomokanga ki Īhipa; nā, ka nui atu tōna kaha. 
I hangā anō e Utia ētahi pourewa ki Hiruhārama, ki te Kūwaha i te Kokonga, ki te Kūwaha i te Raorao, ki te koki o te taiepa, hangā ana e ia kia kaha. 
I hangā anō e ia ētahi pourewa ki te koraha, ā, keria ana ētahi poka wai, he maha, he tini hoki āna kararehe; i te raorao anō, ā, i te mānia. Ā, he kaimahi whenua āna, he kaimahi wāina i ngā maunga, i ngā māra whai hua hoki; he tangata ahu whenua hoki ia. 
He ope anō tā Utia, he hunga whawhai; i haere ā-rōpū ki te whawhai; ko te tokomaha, kei tō rātou tauanga e Teiere kaituhituhi rāua ko te kaiwhakahaere, ko Maaheia. Ko te kaiārahi, ko Hanania, ko tētahi o ngā rangatira a te kīngi. 
Ko te tokomaha katoa o ngā upoko o ngā whare o ngā mātua o ngā toa mārohirohi, e rua mano e ono rau. 
Nā, ko te ope hei ārahi mā rātou, he mea i rākaia, e toru rau e whitu mano e rima rau, he hunga i kaha rawa tā rātou whawhai, hei tuarā mō te kīngi ki te hoariri. 
Kua pae noa ake i a Utia he whakangungu rākau mō rātou puta noa i te ope, te tao, he pōtae, he pukupuku, he kōpere, he kōtaha piu kōhatu. 
I hangā anō e ia ētahi mea ki Hiruhārama, he mea whakaaro nā ngā tāngata mōhio, hei uta ki runga i ngā pourewa, i ngā pou koki, hei kōpere i ngā pere, i ngā kōhatu nunui hoki. Ā, pakū ana tōna ingoa ki tawhiti; he hanga whakamīharo hoki tōna āwhinatanga ā kaha noa ake ia. 
Otiia i a ia ka kaha nei, ka whakakake tōna ngākau, ka mahi i te kino, ā, takahia ana e ia tā Ihowā, tā tōna Atua; i tomo hoki ia ki te temepara o Ihowā, ki te tahu whakakakara ki runga ki te āta whakakakara. 
Nā, ka haere atu i muri i a ia a Atāria tohunga, rātou ko ētahi tohunga o Ihowā, e waru tekau, he hunga māia. 
Nā, ka tūria atu e rātou a Utia, te kīngi, ā, ka mea rātou ki a ia, “E kore e tika māu, e Utia, te tahu whakakakara ki a Ihowā; engari mā ngā tohunga, mā ngā tama a Ārona, i whakatapua nei hei tahu whakakakara. Haere atu i te wāhi tapu; kua hē hoki koe; ehara hoki i te mea e whai korōria ai koe i te Atua, i a Ihowā.” 
Kātahi ka riri a Utia; i tōna ringa anō he tahu kakara hei tahu whakakakara; ā, i a ia e riri ana ki ngā tohunga, ka puta ake te repera i tōna rae i te aroaro o ngā tohunga i roto i te whare o Ihowā, i te taha o te āta tahu whakakakara. 
Ā, ko te tahuritanga o te tino tohunga, o Atāria, rātou ko ngā tohunga katoa ki a ia, nanā, he repera tērā kei tōna rae, peia ana ia e rātou i reira. Ko ia anō i hohoro te haere, nō te mea kua pākia ia e Ihowā. 
Nā, he repera a Utia te kīngi ā taea noatia te rā i mate ai, ā, noho ana i te whare motuhake, he repera hoki, he mea momotu atu hoki i te whare o Ihowā; ā, ko tāna tama ko Iotama, te rangatira mō te whare o te kīngi, hei kaiwhakarite mō te iwi o te whenua. 
Nā, ko ērā atu meatanga a Utia, ō mua, ō muri, kua oti te tuhituhi e Ihāia poropiti tama a Āmoho. 
Heoi, kua moe a Utia ki ōna mātua, ā, tanumia iho ki ōna mātua ki te māra i tō ngā kīngi tanumanga; i mea hoki rātou, “He repera ia.” Ā, ko tāna tama, ko Iotama, te kīngi i muri i a ia. 
