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The Second Book of Samuel 17

17 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose, please, 12,000 men, and let me get up, and let me pursue after David tonight. 2 And I will come upon him, and he is weary and weak of hands, and I will startle him, and all the people who are with him will flee. And I will strike the king by himself. 3 And I will return all the people to you, like the returning of all, the man whom you are seeking. All the people will be safe.” 4 And the word was upright in the eyes of Absalom and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

5 And Absalom said, “Now, call also to Hushai the Archite, and let us hear what is in his mouth, even him.” 6 And Hushai came to Absalom, and Absalom said to him, saying, “According to this word, Ahithophel has spoken. Will we do his word? If not, you yourself, speak.”

7 And Hushai said to Absalom, “Not good is the counsel that Ahithophel has counseled at this time.” 8 And Hushai said, “You yourself know your father and his men—that they are mighty men, and they are bitter of spirit, like a bear bereaved in the field. And your father is a man of war, and he will not spend the night with the people.” 9 Look, now he has hidden himself in one of the pits or in one of the places. And it will be when some among them fall in the beginning, the person who hears will hear and say, ‘A slaughter happened among the people who are behind Absalom.’ 10 And he—also, a son of military prowess who his heart is like a heart of the lion—will utterly melt, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man and the sons of military prowess who are with him.

11 “For I will give counsel: All Israel will certainly be gathered to you, from Dan and up to Beersheba, as the sands which are by the sea, to the multitude. And your face will be walking in the battle. 12 And we will come upon him in one of the places where he will be found there, and we will be on him just as the dew falls on the ground. And we will not leave him or any of the men who are with him, even one. 13 And if he gathers into a city, and all Israel will bring ropes to that city. And we will drag it up to the river until even a pebble will not be found there.”

14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “Better is the counsel of Hushai the Archite than the counsel of Ahithophel.” And Yahweh commanded to foil the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of Yahweh bringing the disaster to Absalom.

15 And Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar, the priests, “Like that and like that Ahithophel counsels Absalom and the elders of Israel. And like that and like that I myself have counseled. 16 But now, send quickly and declare to David, saying, ‘Do not spend tonight in the fords of the wilderness, and also certainly cross over lest the king and all the people who are with him will be swallowed up.’ ”

17 And Jonathan and Ahimaaz were standing in the spring of Rogel, and a female servant would come, and she would inform them, and they themselves would go, and they would inform King David, for they were not able to be seen entering the city. 18 And a young man saw them, and he informed Absalom. And the two of them went quickly, and they came to the house of a man in Bahurim, and a well belonged to him in his courtyard, and they went down there. 19 And the woman took and stretched out the cover over the face of the well, and she spread grain over it. And the matter was not known.

20 And the servants of Absalom came to the woman of the house, and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”

And the woman said to them, “They crossed over the brook of water.” And they sought, but they did not find, and they returned to Jerusalem.

21 And it happened after they went, they went up from the well, and they went, and they informed King David. And they said to David, “Get up and quickly cross over the waters, for thus Ahithophel counseled against you.” 22 And David and all the people who were with him got up, and they crossed the Jordan until the light of morning, until one was not remaining that had not crossed the Jordan.

23 And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not done, and he saddled his donkey, and he got up, and he went to his house, to his city, and he gave commands to his house, and he hanged himself. And he died, and he was buried in the grave of his father.

24 And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. 25 And Absalom appointed Amasa in the place of Joab over the army. And Amasa was the son of a man, and his name was Ithra the Israelite, who came to Abigail the daughter of Nahash the sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab. 26 And Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.

27 And it happened as David came to Mahanaim, and Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-Debar and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim— 28 beds and basins and vessels of the potter and wheat and barley and flour and roasted grain and beans and lentils and roasted grain 29 and honey and butter and sheep and cheese of the cattle they brought in to David and to 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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