我必用量撒马利亚的准绳和亚哈家的线铊拉在耶路撒冷上，必擦净耶路撒冷，如人擦盘，将盘倒扣。
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
我必弃掉所馀剩的子民（原文作产业），把他们交在仇敌手中，使他们成为一切仇敌掳掠之物。
And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
是因他们自从列祖出埃及直到如今，常行我眼中看为恶的事，惹动我的怒气。
Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
玛拿西与他列祖同睡，葬在自己宫院乌撒的园内。他儿子亚们接续他作王。
And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
离弃耶和华他列祖的神，不遵行耶和华的道。
And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
亚们王的臣仆背叛他，在宫里杀了他。
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
约押说，愿耶和华使他的百姓比现在加增百倍。我主我王阿，他们不都是你的仆人吗。我主为何吩咐行这事，为何使以色列人陷在罪里呢。
And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
但王的命令胜过约押。约押就出去，走遍以色列地，回到耶路撒冷，
Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
将百姓的总数奏告大卫，以色列人拿刀的有一百一十万。犹大人拿刀的有四十七万。
And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
耶和华吩咐大卫的先见迦得说，
And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,