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2 Samuel 17:1
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Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me
now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this
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| 2 Samuel 17:2 |
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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: |
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| 2 Samuel 17:3 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:4 |
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And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all
the elders of Israel. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:5 |
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Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite
also, and let us hear likewise what he saith. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:6 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:7 |
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And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that
Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:8 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:9 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:10 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:11 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:12 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:13 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:14 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:15 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:16 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:17 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:18 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:19 |
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And the woman took and spread a covering over
the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:20 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:21 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:22 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:23 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:24 |
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Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed
over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:25 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:26 |
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So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of
Gilead. |
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| 2 Samuel 17:27 |
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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, |
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| 2 Samuel 17:28 |
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Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels,
and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and
parched pulse, |
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| 2 Samuel 17:29 |
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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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