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2 Samuel 17
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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 night: |
 Ahithophel vs Hushai
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| 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:
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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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And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. |
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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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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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And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is
not good at this time. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. |
 (17:14) "For the LORD had appointed
to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might
bring evil upon Absalom."
God made Absalom reject the advice of Ahithophel so that he could "bring evil on Absalom."
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. |
(17:23) "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."
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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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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. |
 (17:25)
"Amasa was a man's son,
whose name was Ithra an Israelite."
Who was Amasa's father?
 20,000
Israelites Killed
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So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
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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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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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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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