Then the people saw, that the king would not hear them, and the people answered to the king, and said, What part is to us in David, either what heritage in the son of Jesse? Israel, turn thou again into thy tabernacles; now, David, see thou to thine house. And Israel went into his tabernacles.
Thou hast smitten Edom, and haddest the mastery upon it, and thine heart hath raised thee; be thou satisfied with this glory, and sit in thine house; why excitest, or stirrest up, thou evil, so that thou fall, and Judah with thee?
Hasted chattel [or substance], that is, gotten hastily, shall be made less; but that that is gathered little and little with hand, shall be multiplied.
Bring thou not forth soon those things in strife, which thine eyes saw; lest afterward thou mayest not amend, when thou hast made thy friend unhonest or he hath shamed thee.
he is proud, and knoweth nothing, but languisheth about questions and strivings [or fightings] of words, of the which be brought forth envies, strives, blasphemies, evil suspicions,
And when all men had heard this, they cried, Never such a thing was done in Israel, from that day in which our fathers ascended [or went up] from Egypt, till into [the] present time; say ye sentence, and deem ye in common, what is needed to be done.