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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 .