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Chapter 17
Moreouer
Ahithophel
said
vnto
Absalom,
Let
mee
nowe
chuse
out
twelue
thousand
men,
and
I
will
arise
and
pursue
after
Dauid
this
night.
2
And
I
wil
come
vpon
him
while
hee
is
wearie
and
weake
handed,
and
wil
make
him
afraid:
and
all
the
people
that
are
with
him
shall
flee,
and
I
will
smite
the
king
onely.
3
And
I
wil
bring
backe
all
the
people
vnto
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
vs
heare
likewise
what
he
saith.
6
And
when
Hushai
was
come
to
Absalom,
Absalom
spake
vnto
him,
saying,
Ahithophel
hath
spoken
after
this
maner:
shall
we
doe
after
his
saying?
if
not,
speake
thou.
7
And
Hushai
said
vnto
Absalom,
The
counsell
that
Ahithophel
hath
giuen,
is
not
good
at
this
time.
8
For,
(said
Hushai,)
thou
knowest
thy
father
and
his
men,
that
they
bee
mightie
men,
and
they
be
chafed
in
their
minds,
as
a
beare
robbed
of
her
whelps
in
the
field:
and
thy
father
is
a
man
of
warre,
and
will
not
lodge
with
the
people.
9
Behold,
he
is
hid
now
in
some
pit,
or
in
some
other
place:
and
it
wil
come
to
passe
when
some
of
them
bee
ouerthrowen
at
the
first,
that
whosoeuer
heareth
it,
wil
say,
There
is
a
slaughter
among
the
people
that
followe
Absalom.
10
And
he
also
that
is
valiant,
whose
heart
is
as
the
heart
of
a
Lyon,
shall
vtterly
melt:
for
all
Israel
knoweth
that
thy
father
is
a
mightie
man,
and
they
which
be
with
him
are
valiant
men.
11
Therefore
I
counsell,
that
all
Israel
be
generally
gathered
vnto
thee,
from
Dan
euen
to
Beer-sheba,
as
the
sand
that
is
by
the
sea
for
multitude,
and
that
thou
goe
to
battell
in
thine
owne
person.
12
So
shall
wee
come
vpon
him
in
some
place
where
he
shall
be
found,
and
we
will
light
vpon
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
Moreouer,
if
hee
be
gotten
into
a
citie,
then
shall
all
Israel
bring
ropes
to
that
city,
and
we
will
draw
it
into
the
riuer,
vntill
there
be
not
one
small
stone
found
there.
14
And
Absalom
and
all
the
men
of
Israel
said,
The
counsell
of
Hushai
the
Archite,
is
better
then
the
counsell
of
Ahithophel:
For
the
Lord
had
appointed
to
defeate
the
good
counsell
of
Ahithophel,
to
the
intent
that
the
Lord
might
bring
euill
vpon
Absalom.
15
Then
said
Hushai
vnto
Zadok
and
to
Abiathar
the
Priestes,
Thus
and
thus
did
Ahithophel
counsell
Absalom
and
the
Elders
of
Israel,
and
thus
and
thus
haue
I
counselled.
16
Now
therefore
send
quickly,
and
tell
Dauid,
saying,
Lodge
not
this
night
in
the
plaines
of
the
wildernes,
but
speedily
passe
ouer,
lest
the
King
be
swallowed
vp,
and
all
the
people
that
are
with
him.
17
Now
Ionathan
and
Ahimaaz
stayed
by
En-rogel:
(for
they
might
not
be
seene
to
come
into
the
citie)
and
a
wench
went
and
tolde
them:
and
they
went,
and
tolde
king
Dauid.
18
Neuerthelesse,
a
ladde
saw
them,
and
tolde
Absalom:
but
they
went
both
of
them
away
quickely,
and
came
to
a
mans
house
in
Bahurim,
which
had
a
Well
in
his
court,
whither
they
went
downe.
19
And
the
woman
tooke
and
spread
a
couering
ouer
the
welles
mouth,
and
spread
ground
corne
thereon;
and
the
thing
was
not
knowen.
20
And
when
Absaloms
seruants
came
to
the
woman
to
the
house,
they
said,
Where
is
Ahimaaz
and
Ionathan?
And
the
woman
said
vnto
them,
They
be
gone
ouer
the
brooke
of
water.
And
when
they
had
sought,
and
could
not
finde
them,
they
returned
to
Ierusalem.
21
And
it
came
to
passe
after
they
were
departed,
that
they
came
vp
out
of
the
Well,
and
went
and
tolde
king
Dauid,
and
said
vnto
Dauid,
Arise,
and
passe
quickely
ouer
the
water:
for
thus
hath
Ahithophel
counselled
against
you.
22
Then
Dauid
arose,
and
all
the
people
that
were
with
him,
and
they
passed
ouer
Iordane:
by
the
morning
light
there
lacked
not
one
of
them
that
was
not
gone
ouer
Iordane.
23
And
when
Ahithophel
sawe
that
his
counsell
was
not
followed,
he
sadled
his
asse,
and
arose,
and
gate
him
home
to
his
house,
to
his
citie,
and
put
his
houshold
in
order,
and
hanged
himselfe,
and
died,
and
was
buried
in
the
sepulchre
of
his
father.
24
Then
Dauid
came
to
Mahanaim:
and
Absalom
passed
ouer
Iordane,
he
and
all
the
men
of
Israel
with
him.
25
And
Absalom
made
Amasa
captaine
of
the
hoste
in
stead
of
Ioab:
which
Amasa
was
a
mans
sonne
whose
name
was
Ithra
an
Israelite,
that
went
in
to
Abigal
the
daughter
of
Nahash,
sister
to
Zeruiah
Ioabs
mother.
26
So
Israel
and
Absalom
pitched
in
the
land
of
Gilead.
27
And
it
came
to
passe
when
Dauid
was
come
to
Mahanaim,
that
Shobi
the
sonne
of
Nahash
of
Rabbah
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
Machir
the
sonne
of
Ammiel
of
Lodebar,
and
Barzillai
the
Gileadite,
of
Rogelim,
28
Brought
beds,
and
basins,
and
earthen
vessels,
and
wheat,
and
barley,
and
floure,
and
parched
corne,
&
beanes,
and
lentiles,
and
parched
pulse,
29
And
honie,
and
butter,
and
sheepe,
and
cheese
of
kine
for
Dauid,
and
for
the
people
that
were
with
him,
to
eate:
for
they
said,
The
people
is
hungrie,
and
wearie,
and
thirstie
in
the
wildernesse.
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