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Chapter 17
Moreover
Ahithophel
said
unto
Absalom,
Let
me
now
choose
out
twelve
thousand
men,
and
I
will
arise
and
pursue
after
David
this
night:
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:
3
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.
4
And
the
saying
pleased
Absalom
well,
and
all
the
elders
of
Israel.
5
Then
said
Absalom,
Call
now
Hushai
the
Archite
also,
and
let
us
hear
likewise
what
he
saith.
6
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.
7
And
Hushai
said
unto
Absalom,
The
counsel
that
Ahithophel
hath
given
is
not
good
at
this
time.
8
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.
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
heareth
it
will
say,
There
is
a
slaughter
among
the
people
that
follow
Absalom.
10
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.
11
Therefore
I
counsel
that
all
Israel
be
generally
gathered
unto
thee,
from
Dan
even
to
Beer-sheba,
as
the
sand
that
is
by
the
sea
for
multitude;
and
that
thou
go
to
battle
in
thine
own
person.
12
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.
13
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.
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.
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.
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
Now
Jonathan
and
Ahimaaz
stayed
by
En-rogel;
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.
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;
whither
they
went
down.
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.
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.
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
hath
Ahithophel
counselled
against
you.
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.
23
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.
24
Then
David
came
to
Mahanaim.
And
Absalom
passed
over
Jordan,
he
and
all
the
men
of
Israel
with
him.
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.
26
So
Israel
and
Absalom
pitched
in
the
land
of
Gilead.
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
Lo-debar,
and
Barzillai
the
Gileadite
of
Rogelim,
28
Brought
beds,
and
basons,
and
earthen
vessels,
and
wheat,
and
barley,
and
flour,
and
parched
corn,
and
beans,
and
lentiles,
and
parched
pulse,
29
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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