26 A wise king winnows out the wicked;
    he drives the threshing wheel over them.(A)

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When a king sits on his throne to judge,(A)
    he winnows out all evil with his eyes.(B)

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Whoever slanders their neighbor(A) in secret,
    I will put to silence;
whoever has haughty eyes(B) and a proud heart,
    I will not tolerate.

My eyes will be on the faithful in the land,
    that they may dwell with me;
the one whose walk is blameless(C)
    will minister to me.

No one who practices deceit
    will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
    will stand in my presence.

Every morning(D) I will put to silence
    all the wicked(E) in the land;
I will cut off every evildoer(F)
    from the city of the Lord.(G)

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31 and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking.[a] David did this to all the Ammonite(A) towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:31 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

David answered Rekab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the Lord lives, who has delivered(A) me out of every trouble, 10 when someone told me, ‘Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and put him to death in Ziklag.(B) That was the reward I gave him for his news! 11 How much more—when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed—should I not now demand his blood(C) from your hand and rid the earth of you!”

12 So David gave an order to his men, and they killed them.(D) They cut off their hands and feet and hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-Bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb at Hebron.

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27 Caraway is not threshed(A) with a sledge,(B)
    nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin;
caraway is beaten out with a rod,(C)
    and cumin with a stick.
28 Grain must be ground to make bread;
    so one does not go on threshing it forever.
The wheels of a threshing cart(D) may be rolled over it,
    but one does not use horses to grind grain.

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