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II SAMUEL ยท Chapter 17
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:
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 strike the king only:
17:3 And I will bring back all the people unto you: the man whom you
seek is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
17:4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
17:5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us
hear likewise what he says.
17:6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke unto him, saying,
Ahithophel has spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying?
if not; speak you.
17:7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has
given is not good at this time.
17:8 For, said Hushai, you know your 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 your father is a man of war, and will not lodge
with the people.
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 hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that
follow Absalom.
17:10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a
lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty
man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
17:11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto
you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude;
and that you go to battle in your own person.
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 falls on the ground: and of him and
of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.
17:13 Moreover, if he be got 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.
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.
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.
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.
17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not
be seen to come into the city: and a maid servant went and told them; and
they went and told king David.
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; where they went down.
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.
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.
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 has Ahithophel counselled
against you.
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.
17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he
saddled his ass, and arose, and got him home to his house, to his city,
and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried
in the tomb of his father.
17:24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan,
he and all the men of Israel with him.
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.
17:26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
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,
17:28 Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and
barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched
vegetables,
17:29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of cattle, 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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