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

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

A king who sits on the throne of judgment Scatters all evil with his eyes.

The north wind brings forth rain, And a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking righteousness. SelahYou love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.

All of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who reveals to me that my son has made a covenant with the son of Jesse; and there is not one of you who is sorry for me or reveals to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day.”Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said,“ I saw the son of Jesse going to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.And he inquired of the Lord for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”So the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob. And they all came to the king.And Saul said,“ Hear now, son of Ahitub!” He answered,“ Here I am, my Lord.”Then Saul said to him,“ Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day?”So Ahimelech answered the king and said,“ And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, who goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house?Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king impute anything to his servant, or to any in the house of my father. For your servant knew nothing of all this, little or much.”And the king said,“ You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!”Then the king said to the guards who stood about him,“ Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled and did not tell it to me.” But the servants of the king would not lift their hands to strike the priests of the Lord.And the king said to Doeg,“ You turn and kill the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck the priests, and killed on that day eighty-five men who wore a linen ephod.Also Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep— with the edge of the sword.Now one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the LORD’s priests.So David said to Abiathar,“ I knew that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have caused the death of all the persons of your father’s house.Stay with me; do not fear. For he who seeks my life seeks your life, but with me you shall be safe.”

Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah, saying,“ Is David not hiding with us in strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.”And Saul said,“ Blessed are you of the Lord, for you have compassion on me.Please go and find out for sure, and see the place where his hideout is, and who has seen him there. For I am told he is very crafty.See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides; and come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. And it shall be, if he is in the land, that I will search for him throughout all the clans of Judah.”

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, Him I will destroy; The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, Him I will not endure.My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me; He who walks in a perfect way, He shall serve me.He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.

Then the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who was lying on his bed at noon.And they came there, all the way into the house, as though to get wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.For when they came into the house, he was lying on his bed in his bedroom; then they struck him and killed him, beheaded him and took his head, and were all night escaping through the plain.And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king,“ Here is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life; and the Lord has avenged my Lord the king this day of Saul and his descendants.”But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them,“ As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life from all adversity,when someone told me, saying,‘ Look, Saul is dead,’ thinking to have brought good news, I arrested him and had him executed in Ziklag— the one who thought I would give him a reward for his news.How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?”So David commanded his young men, and they executed them, cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ishbosheth said to Abner,“ Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”Then Abner became very angry at the words of Ishbosheth, and said,“ Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show loyalty to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman?May God do so to Abner, and more also, if I do not do for David as the Lord has sworn to him—to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”And he could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.

Then he wrote a second letter to them, saying: If you are for me and will obey my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow. Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.So it was, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons and slaughtered seventy persons, put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.

So the men of his city, the elders and nobles who were inhabitants of his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.They proclaimed a fast, and seated Naboth with high honor among the people.And two men, scoundrels, came in and sat before him; and the scoundrels witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying,“ Naboth has blasphemed God and the king!” Then they took him outside the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.