If a ruler listens to lies, all his ministers will be 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 hearken to lies, all his servants[ are] wicked.

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

A king sitting on the throne to judge separates out all evil with his eyes.

The north wind brings forth rain, and a gossiping tongue brings forth an angry look.

Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth.( Selah)You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives.

For all of you have conspired against me! No one informs me when my own son makes an agreement with this son of Jesse! Not one of you feels sorry for me or informs me that my own son has commissioned my own servant to hide in ambush against me, as is the case today!”But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with the servants of Saul, replied,“ I saw this son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.He inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions. He also gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”Then the king arranged for a meeting with the priest Ahimelech son of Ahitub and all the priests of his father’s house who were at Nob. They all came to the king.Then Saul said,“ Listen, son of Ahitub.” He replied,“ Here I am, my lord.”Saul said to him,“ Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”Ahimelech replied to the king,“ Who among all your servants is faithful like David? He is the king’s son-in-law, the leader of your bodyguard, and honored in your house!Was it just today that I began to inquire of God on his behalf? Far be it from me! The king should not accuse his servant or any of my father’s house. For your servant is not aware of all this– not in whole or in part!”But the king said,“ You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!Then the king said to the messengers who were stationed beside him,“ Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, for they too have sided with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm the priests of the LORD.Then the king said to Doeg,“ You turn and strike down the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.As for Nob, the city of the priests, he struck down with the sword men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep– all with the sword.But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped and fled to David. His name was Abiathar.Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.Then David said to Abiathar,“ I knew that day when Doeg the Edomite was there that he would certainly tell Saul! I am guilty of all the deaths in your father’s house!Stay with me. Don’t be afraid! Whoever seeks my life is seeking your life as well. You are secure with me.”

Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said,“ Isn’t David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon?Now at your own discretion, O king, come down. Delivering him into the king’s hand will be our responsibility.”Saul replied,“ May you be blessed by the LORD, for you have had compassion on me.Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely where he is and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him among all the thousands of Judah.”

I will destroy anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret. I will not tolerate anyone who has a cocky demeanor and an arrogant attitude.I will favor the honest people of the land, and allow them to live with me. Those who walk in the way of integrity will attend me.Deceitful people will not live in my palace. Liars will not be welcome in my presence.

Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite– Recab and Baanah– went at the hottest part of the day to the home of Ish-bosheth, as he was enjoying his midday rest.They entered the house under the pretense of getting wheat and mortally wounded him in the stomach. Then Recab and his brother Baanah escaped.They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him and then cut off his head. Taking his head, they traveled on the way of the Arabah all that night.They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king,“ Look! The head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against Saul and his descendants!”David replied to Recab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite,“ As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered my life from all adversity,when someone told me that Saul was dead– even though he thought he was bringing good news– I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him!Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?”So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. Ish-bosheth said to Abner,“ Why did you have sexual relations with my father’s concubine?”These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said,“ Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today!God will severely judge Abner if I do not do for David exactly what the LORD has promised him,namely, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah all the way from Dan to Beer Sheba!”Ish-bosheth was unable to answer Abner with even a single word because he was afraid of him.

He wrote them a second letter, saying,“ If you are really on my side and are willing to obey me, then take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” Now the king had seventy sons, and the prominent men of the city were raising them.When they received the letter, they seized the king’s sons and executed all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel.

The men of the city, the leaders and the nobles who lived there, followed the written orders Jezebel had sent them.They observed a time of fasting and put Naboth in front of the people.The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying,“ Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they dragged him outside the city and stoned him to death.