If a ruler pays attention to falsehood, All his ministers 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 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 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 justice Disperses all evil with his eyes.

The north wind brings rain, And a gossiping tongue brings an angry face.

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.You love evil more than good, Lies more than speaking what is right. SelahYou love all words that devour, You deceitful tongue.

For all of you have conspired against me so that there is no one who informs me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who cares about me or informs me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day.”Then Doeg the Edomite, who was standing in front of the servants of Saul, responded and said,“ I saw the son of Jesse coming 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.”Then the king sent a messenger to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s household, the priests who were in Nob; and all of them came to the king.Saul said,“ Listen now, son of Ahitub.” And he replied,“ Here I am, my lord.”Saul then said to him,“ Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me, in that you have given him bread and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, so that he would rise up against me by lying in ambush as it is this day?”Then Ahimelech answered the king and said,“ And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s own son in law, who is commander over your bodyguard, and is honored in your house?Did I just begin to inquire of God for him today? Far be it from me! Do not let the king impute anything against his servant or against any of the household of my father, because your servant knows nothing at all of this whole affair.”But the king said,“ You shall certainly die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s household!”And the king said to the guards who were attending him,“ Turn around and put the priests of the Lord to death, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not inform me.” But the servants of the king were unwilling to reach out with their hands to attack the priests of the Lord.Then the king said to Doeg,“ You, turn around and attack the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty five men who wore the linen ephod.He also struck Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and infants; he also struck oxen, donkeys, and sheep with the edge of the sword.But one son of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to David.Abiathar informed David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord.Then David said to Abiathar,“ I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would certainly tell Saul. I myself have turned against every person in your father’s household.Stay with me; do not be afraid, even though he who is seeking my life is seeking your life. For you are safe with me.”

Then Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah, saying,“ Is David not keeping himself hidden with us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon?Now then, O king, come down, since you fully desire to do so; and our part shall be to hand him over to the king.”Saul said,“ May you be blessed of the Lord, since you have had compassion on me.Go now, be more persistent, and investigate and see his place where he is hiding, and who has seen him there; for I am told that he is very cunning.So look, and learn about all the hiding places where he keeps himself hidden, and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; I will not endure one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart.My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; One who walks in a blameless way is one who will serve me.One who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house; One who speaks lies shall not maintain his position before me.

So the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, departed and came to the house of Ish bosheth in the heat of the day, while he was taking his midday rest.And they came to the interior of the house as if to get wheat, and they struck him in the belly; and Rechab and his brother Baanah escaped.Now when they had come into the house, as he was lying on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and killed him, and they beheaded him. And they took his head and traveled by way of the Arabah all night.Then they brought the head of Ish bosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king,“ Behold, the head of Ish bosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; so the Lord has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his descendants.”But David replied to Rechab and his brother Baanah, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them,“ As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,when the one who informed me, saying,‘ Behold, Saul is dead,’ also viewed himself as the bearer of good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and eliminate you both from the earth?”Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet, and hung them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish bosheth and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

And Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ish bosheth said to Abner,“ Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”Then Abner became very angry over Ish bosheth’s question and said,“ Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers and to his friends, and have not let you fall into the hands of David; yet today you call me to account for wrongdoing with that woman?May God do so to me, and more so, if as the Lord has sworn to David, I do not accomplish this for him:to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba!”And Ish bosheth could no longer say a word in response to Abner, because he was afraid of him.

Then he wrote them a letter a second time, saying,“ If you are on my side, and will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel about this time tomorrow.” Now the king’s sons, seventy men, were with the great people of the city, who were raising them.When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and slaughtered them, seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.

So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did just as Jezebel had sent word to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent them.They proclaimed a fast, and seated Naboth at the head of the people.Then the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him; and the worthless men testified against him, against Naboth, before the people, saying,“ Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.