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1
Furthermore, Ahithophel
said
to Absalom,
"Please
let me choose
12,000
men
that I may arise
and pursue
David
tonight.
2
"I will come
upon him while he is weary
and exhausted
and terrify
him, so that all
the people
who
are with him will flee.
Then I will strike down
the king
alone,
3
and I will bring
back
all
the people
to you. The return
of everyone
depends on the man
you seek;
then
all
the people
will be at peace."
4
So the plan
pleased
Absalom
and all
the elders
of Israel.
5
Then Absalom
said,
"Now
call
Hushai
the Archite
also,
and let us hear
what
he has to say."
6
When
Hushai
had come
to
Absalom
,
Absalom
said
to him, "Ahithophel
has spoken
thus.
Shall we carry
out his plan?
If
not, you speak."
7
So Hushai
said
to Absalom,
"This
time
the advice
that Ahithophel
has given
is not good."
8
Moreover, Hushai
said,
"You know
your father
and his men,
that they are mighty men
and they are fierce,
like a bear
robbed of her cubs
in the field.
And
your father
is an expert
in warfare,
and will not spend the night
with the people.
9
"Behold,
he has now
hidden
himself
in one
of the caves
or
in another
place;
and it will be when
he falls
on them at the first
attack, that whoever hears
it will say,
'There has been
a slaughter
among the people
who
follow
Absalom.'
10
"And even
the one
who is valiant,
whose
heart
is like the
heart
of a lion,
will completely
lose
heart
;
for all
Israel
knows
that your father
is a mighty
man
and those who
are with him are valiant
men.
11
"But I counsel
that all
Israel
be surely
gathered
to you, from Dan
even to Beersheba,
as the sand
that is by the sea
in abundance,
and that you personally
go
into battle.
12
"So we shall come
to him in
one
of the places
where
he can be found,
and we will fall
on him as the dew
falls
on the ground;
and of him and of all
the men
who
are with him, not even
one
will be left.
13
"If
he withdraws
into a city,
then all
Israel
shall bring
ropes
to that city,
and we will drag
it into the valley
until
not even
a small stone
is found
there."
14
Then 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 ordained
to thwart
the good
counsel
of Ahithophel,
so
that the LORD
might bring
calamity
on Absalom.
15
Then Hushai
said
to Zadok
and to Abiathar
the priests,
"This is what
Ahithophel
counseled
Absalom
and the elders
of Israel,
and this is what
I have
counseled
.
16
"Now
therefore, send
quickly
and tell
David,
saying,
'
Do not spend
the night
at the fords
of the wilderness,
but by all
means cross over,
or else
the king
and all
the people
who
are with him will be destroyed.'"
17
Now Jonathan
and Ahimaaz
were staying
at En-rogel,
and a maidservant
would go
and tell
them, and they
would go
and tell
King
David,
for they could
not be seen
entering
the city.
18
But a lad
did see
them and told
Absalom;
so the two
of them departed
quickly
and came
to the house
of a man
in Bahurim,
who had a well
in his courtyard,
and they went down
into it.
19
And the woman
took
a covering
and spread
it over
the well's
mouth
and scattered
grain
on it, so that nothing
was known.
20
Then Absalom's
servants
came
to the woman
at the house
and
said
,
"Where
are Ahimaaz
and Jonathan?"
And the woman
said
to them, "They have crossed
the brook
of water."
And when
they searched
and could not find
them, they returned
to Jerusalem.
21
It came
about after
they had departed
that they came
up out of the well
and went
and told
King
David;
and they said
to David,
"Arise
and cross over
the water
quickly
for thus
Ahithophel
has counseled
against
you."
22
Then David
and all
the people
who
were with him arose
and crossed
the Jordan;
and by dawn
not even
one
remained
who
had not crossed
the Jordan.
23
Now when
Ahithophel
saw
that his counsel
was not followed,
he saddled
his donkey
and arose
and went
to his home,
to his city,
and set
his house
in order,
and strangled
himself; thus he died
and was buried
in the grave
of his father.
24
Then David
came
to Mahanaim.
And Absalom
crossed
the Jordan,
he and all
the men
of Israel
with him.
25
Absalom
set
Amasa
over
the army
in place
of Joab.
Now
Amasa
was the son
of a man
whose name
was Ithra
the Israelite,
who
went
in to Abigail
the daughter
of Nahash,
sister
of Zeruiah,
Joab's
mother.
26
And Israel
and Absalom
camped
in the land
of Gilead.
27
Now when David
had come
to Mahanaim,
Shobi
the son
of Nahash
from Rabbah
of the sons
of Ammon,
Machir
the son
of Ammiel
from Lo-debar,
and Barzillai
the Gileadite
from Rogelim,
28
brought
beds,
basins,
pottery,
wheat,
barley,
flour,
parched
grain, beans,
lentils,
parched
seeds,
29
honey,
curds,
sheep,
and cheese
of the herd,
for David
and for the people
who
were with him, to eat;
for they said,
"The people
are hungry
and weary
and thirsty
in the wilderness."
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