2Samuel:17
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Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom ,
Let me now choose out twelve sh @
nayim #
thousand men ,
and I will arise and pursue after David this night :
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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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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 Yisra #
el #.
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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 pa #
am #.
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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 ben #,
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 B @#
er ,
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 .
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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 Yisra #
el #;
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 #
Achiyma #
ats #
stayed by Enrogel #
Eyn ;
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 mans 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 wells mouth ,
and spread ground corn thereon ;
and the thing was not known .
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And when Absaloms servants came to the woman to the house ,
they said ,
Where is Ahimaaz #
Achiyma #
ats #
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 @#
er #,
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 .
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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 Yow #
ab #:
which Amasa was a mans son ,
whose name was Ithra an Israelite Yisr @#
eliy #,
that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash ,
sister to Zeruiah Joabs mother .
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So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead Gil #
ad #.
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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 #
Ammiy #
el #
of Lodebar D @
bar #,
and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim ,
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Brought beds ,
and basons ,
and earthen vessels ,
and wheat ,
and barley s @#
orah #,
and flour ,
and parched corn ,
and beans ,
and lentiles ,
and parched pulse ,
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And honey ,
and butter chem #
ah #,
and sheep tso #
n #,
and cheese of kine ,
for David ,
and for the people that were with him ,
to eat :
for they said ,
The people is hungry ra #
eb #,
and weary ,
and thirsty ,
in the wilderness .