If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants[ are] wicked.

君王若听谎言，他一切臣仆都是奸恶。

君王若听谎言，他一切臣仆都是奸恶。

君王若听谎言，他一切臣仆都是奸恶。

君王若听谗言，臣仆必成奸徒。

如果掌权者听信谎言，他所有的臣仆必都是坏人。

如果管辖者听信虚假的话语，所有事奉他的人都会是恶人。

君王若聽謊言，他一切臣僕都是奸惡。

君王若聽謊言，他一切臣僕都是奸惡。

君王若聽謊言，他一切臣僕都是奸惡。

君王若聽讒言，臣僕必成奸徒。

如果掌權者聽信謊言，他所有的臣僕必都是壞人。

掌權者傾聽虛假的話，他的臣僕就都邪惡。

如果管轄者聽信虛假的話語，所有事奉他的人都會是惡人。

君長若聽誑言、臣僕則盡奸邪、

君聽虛妄、臣下化之。

秉權者聽誑言、其臣僕必皆邪惡、

If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials become wicked.

If rulers listen to lies, all their officials become evil.

If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

If a ruler pays attention to liars, all his advisers will be wicked.

If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.

If a ruler pays attention to falsehood, All his ministers become wicked.

If a ruler pays attention to lies, All his servants become wicked.

If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked.

If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.

If a ruler listens to lies, all his ministers will be wicked.

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

The north wind driveth away rain: so[ doth] an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.Thou lovest evil more than good;[ and] lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.Thou lovest all devouring words, O[ thou] deceitful tongue.

That all of you have conspired against me, and[ there is] none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and[ there is] none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests that[ were] in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I[ am], my lord.And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who[ is so] faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute[ any] thing unto his servant,[ nor] to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also[ is] with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD’S priests.And David said unto Abiathar, I knew[ it] that day, when Doeg the Edomite[ was] there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned[ the death] of all the persons of thy father’s house.Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou[ shalt be] in safeguard.

Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which[ is] on the south of Jeshimon?Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part[ shall be] to deliver him into the king’s hand.And Saul said, Blessed[ be] ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is,[ and] who hath seen him there: for it is told me[ that] he dealeth very subtilly.See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.Mine eyes[ shall be] upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.And they came thither into the midst of the house,[ as though] they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth[ rib]: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them,[ As] the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who[ thought] that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged[ them] up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried[ it] in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

And Saul had a concubine, whose name[ was] Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and[ Ishbosheth] said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father’s concubine?Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said,[ Am] I a dog’s head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.

Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye[ be] mine, and[ if] ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the king’s sons,[ being] seventy persons,[ were] with the great men of the city, which brought them up.And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him[ them] to Jezreel.

And the men of his city,[ even] the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them,[ and] as it[ was] written in the letters which she had sent unto them.They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him,[ even] against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.