¹ 耶和华的话又临到我说：

² 人子啊，你要审问审问这流人血的城麽？当使他知道他一切可憎的事。

³ 你要说，主耶和华如此说：哎！这城有流人血的事在其中，叫他受报的日期来到，又做偶像玷污自己，陷害自己。

⁴ 你因流了人的血，就为有罪；你做了偶像，就玷污自己，使你受报之日临近，报应之年来到。所以我叫你受列国的凌辱和列邦的讥诮。

⁵ 你这名臭、多乱的城啊，那些离你近、离你远的都必讥诮你。

⁶ 看哪，以色列的首领各逞其能，在你中间流人之血。

⁷ 在你中间有轻慢父母的，有欺压寄居的，有亏负孤儿寡妇的。

⁸ 你藐视了我的圣物，干犯了我的安息日。

⁹ 在你中间有谗谤人、流人血的；有在山上吃过祭偶像之物的，有行淫乱的。

¹⁰ 在你中间有露继母下体羞辱父亲的，有玷辱月经不洁净之妇人的。

¹¹ 这人与邻舍的妻行可憎的事；那人贪淫玷污儿妇；还有玷辱同父之姊妹的。

¹² 在你中间有为流人血受贿赂的；有向借钱的弟兄取利，向借粮的弟兄多要的。且因贪得无餍，欺压邻舍夺取财物，竟忘了我。这是主耶和华说的。

¹³ 看哪，我因你所得不义之财和你中间所流的血，就拍掌叹息。

¹⁴ 到了我惩罚你的日子，你的心还能忍受麽？你的手还能有力麽？我─耶和华说了这话，就必照着行。

¹⁵ 我必将你分散在列国，四散在列邦。我也必从你中间除掉你的污秽。

¹⁶ 你必在列国人的眼前因自己所行的被亵渎，你就知道我是耶和华。

¹⁷ 耶和华的话临到我说：

¹⁸ 人子啊，以色列家在我看为渣滓。他们都是炉中的铜、锡、铁、铅，都是银渣滓。

¹⁹ 所以主耶和华如此说：因你们都成为渣滓，我必聚集你们在耶路撒冷中。

²⁰ 人怎样将银、铜、铁、铅、锡聚在炉中，吹火镕化，照样，我也要发怒气和忿怒，

²¹ 我必聚集你们，把我烈怒的火吹在你们身上，你们就在其中镕化。

²² 银子怎样镕化在炉中，你们也必照样镕化在城中，你们就知道我耶和华是将忿怒倒在你们身上了。”

²³ 耶和华的话临到我说：

²⁴ 人子啊，你要对这地说：你是未得洁净之地，在恼恨的日子也没有雨下在你以上。

²⁵ 其中的先知同谋背叛，如咆哮的狮子抓撕掠物。他们吞灭人民，抢夺财宝，使这地多有寡妇。

²⁶ 其中的祭司强解我的律法，亵渎我的圣物，不分别圣的和俗的，也不使人分辨洁净的和不洁净的，又遮眼不顾我的安息日；我也在他们中间被亵慢。

²⁷ 其中的首领彷佛豺狼抓撕掠物，杀人流血，伤害人命，要得不义之财。

²⁸ 其中的先知为百姓用未泡透的灰抹墙，就是为他们见虚假的异象，用谎诈的占卜，说：主耶和华如此说，其实耶和华没有说。

²⁹ 国内众民一味地欺压，惯行抢夺，亏负困苦穷乏的，背理欺压寄居的。

³⁰ 我在他们中间寻找一人重修墙垣，在我面前为这国站在破口防堵，使我不灭绝这国，却找不着一个。

³¹ 所以我将恼恨倒在他们身上，用烈怒的火灭了他们，照他们所行的报应在他们头上。这是主耶和华说的。

¹ Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

² In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'"

³ So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

⁴ David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

⁵ In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

⁶ The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, "Unless you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here;" thinking, "David can't come in here."

⁷ Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

⁸ David said on that day, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and strike the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul." Therefore they say, "The blind and the lame can't come into the house."

⁹ David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built around from Millo and inward.

¹⁰ David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him.

¹¹ Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

¹² David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.

¹³ David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

¹⁴ These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

¹⁵ and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

¹⁶ and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.

¹⁷ When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.

¹⁸ Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

¹⁹ David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?" Yahweh said to David, "go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand."

²⁰ David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and he said, "Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters." Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

²¹ They left their images there; and David and his men took them away.

²² The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

²³ When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, "You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them over against the mulberry trees.

²⁴ It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines."

²⁵ David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.