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2SA-17:1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now

choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue

after David this night:

2SA-17:2 And I will come upon him while he [is] weary and weak

handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that [are]

with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:

2SA-17:3 And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man

whom thou seekest [is] as if all returned: [so] all the people

shall be in peace.

2SA-17:4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders

of Israel.

2SA-17:5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also,

and let us hear likewise what he saith.

2SA-17:6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto

him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we

do [after] his saying? if not; speak thou.

2SA-17:7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that

Ahithophel hath given [is] not good at this time.

2SA-17:8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men,

that they [be] mighty men, and they [be] chafed in their minds,

as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father [is]

a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

2SA-17:9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other]

place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown

at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a

slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

2SA-17:10 And he also [that is] valiant, whose heart [is] as the

heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that

thy father [is] a mighty man, and [they] which [be] with him

[are] valiant men.

2SA-17:11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally

gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that

[is] by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in

thine own person.

2SA-17:12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall

be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the

ground: and of him and of all the men that [are] with him there

shall not be left so much as one.

2SA-17:13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all

Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the

river, until there be not one small stone found there.

2SA-17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The

counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of

Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good

counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring

evil upon Absalom.

2SA-17:15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the

priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the

elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

2SA-17:16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying,

Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but

speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the

people that [are] with him.

2SA-17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they

might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and

told them; and they went and told king David.

2SA-17:18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but

they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house

in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went

down.

2SA-17:19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the

well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was

not known.

2SA-17:20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the

house, they said, Where [is] Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman

said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when

they had sought and could not find [them], they returned to

Jerusalem.

2SA-17:21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that

they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and

said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for

thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.

2SA-17:22 Then David arose, and all the people that [were] with

him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there

lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.

2SA-17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not

followed, he saddled [his] ass, and arose, and gat him home to

his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and

hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his

father.

2SA-17:24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over

Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

2SA-17:25 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of

Joab: which Amasa [was] a man's son, whose name [was] Ithra an

Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash,

sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.

2SA-17:26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

2SA-17:27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim,

that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon,

and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the

Gileadite of Rogelim,

2SA-17:28 Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and

wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched [corn], and beans, and

lentiles, and parched [pulse],

2SA-17:29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine,

for David, and for the people that [were] with him, to eat: for

they said, The people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in

the wilderness.

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