17:1 Moreover,
Ahithophel
said
to
Absalom,
"Let
me
choose
twelve
thousand
men,
and
I
will
arise
and
pursue
David
tonight.
17:2 I
will
come
upon
him
while
he
is
weary
and
discouraged
and
throw
him
into
a
panic,
and
all
the
people
who
are
with
him
will
flee.
I
will
strike
down
only
the
king,
17:3 and
I
will
bring
all
the
people
back
to
you
as
a
bride
comes
home
to
her
husband.
You
seek
the
life
of
only
one
man,
and
all
the
people
will
be
at
peace."
17:4 And
the
advice
seemed
right
in
the
eyes
of
Absalom
and
all
the
elders
of
Israel.
17:5 Then
Absalom
said,
"Call
Hushai
the
Archite
also,
and
let
us
hear
what
he
has
to
say."
17:6 And
when
Hushai
came
to
Absalom,
Absalom
said
to
him,
"Thus
has
Ahithophel
spoken;
shall
we
do
as
he
says
If
not,
you
speak."
17:7 Then
Hushai
said
to
Absalom,
"This
time
the
counsel
that
Ahithophel
has
given
is
not
good."
17:8 Hushai
said,
"You
know
that
your
father
and
his
men
are
mighty
men,
and
that
they
are
enraged,
like
a
bear
robbed
of
her
cubs
in
the
field.
Besides,
your
father
is
expert
in
war;
he
will
not
spend
the
night
with
the
people.
17:9 Behold,
even
now
he
has
hidden
himself
in
one
of
the
pits
or
in
some
other
place.
And
as
soon
as
some
of
the
people
fall
at
the
first
attack,
whoever
hears
it
will
say,
'There
has
been
a
slaughter
among
the
people
who
follow
Absalom.'
17:10 Then
even
the
valiant
man,
whose
heart
is
like
the
heart
of
a
lion,
will
utterly
melt
with
fear,
for
all
Israel
knows
that
your
father
is
a
mighty
man,
and
that
those
who
are
with
him
are
valiant
men.
17:11 But
my
counsel
is
that
all
Israel
be
gathered
to
you,
from
Dan
to
Beersheba,
as
the
sand
by
the
sea
for
multitude,
and
that
you
go
to
battle
in
person.
17:12 So
we
shall
come
upon
him
in
some
place
where
he
is
to
be
found,
and
we
shall
light
upon
him
as
the
dew
falls
on
the
ground,
and
of
him
and
all
the
men
with
him
not
one
will
be
left.
17:13 If
he
withdraws
into
a
city,
then
all
Israel
will
bring
ropes
to
that
city,
and
we
shall
drag
it
into
the
valley,
until
not
even
a
pebble
is
to
be
found
there."
17:14 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
ordained
to
defeat
the
good
counsel
of
Ahithophel,
so
that
the
LORD
might
bring
harm
upon
Absalom.
17:15 Then
Hushai
said
to
Zadok
and
Abiathar
the
priests,
"Thus
and
so
did
Ahithophel
counsel
Absalom
and
the
elders
of
Israel,
and
thus
and
so
have
I
counseled.
17:16 Now
therefore
send
quickly
and
tell
David,
'Do
not
stay
tonight
at
the
fords
of
the
wilderness,
but
by
all
means
pass
over,
lest
the
king
and
all
the
people
who
are
with
him
be
swallowed
up.'"
17:17 Now
Jonathan
and
Ahimaaz
were
waiting
at
En-rogel.
A
female
servant
was
to
go
and
tell
them,
and
they
were
to
go
and
tell
King
David,
for
they
were
not
to
be
seen
entering
the
city.
17:18 But
a
young
man
saw
them
and
told
Absalom.
So
both
of
them
went
away
quickly
and
came
to
the
house
of
a
man
at
Bahurim,
who
had
a
well
in
his
courtyard.
And
they
went
down
into
it.
17:19 And
the
woman
took
and
spread
a
covering
over
the
well's
mouth
and
scattered
grain
on
it,
and
nothing
was
known
of
it.
17:20 When
Absalom's
servants
came
to
the
woman
at
the
house,
they
said,
"Where
are
Ahimaaz
and
Jonathan"
And
the
woman
said
to
them,
"They
have
gone
over
the
brook
of
water."
And
when
they
had
sought
and
could
not
find
them,
they
returned
to
Jerusalem.
17:21 After
they
had
gone,
the
men
came
up
out
of
the
well,
and
went
and
told
King
David.
They
said
to
David,
"Arise,
and
go
quickly
over
the
water,
for
thus
and
so
has
Ahithophel
counseled
against
you."
17:22 Then
David
arose,
and
all
the
people
who
were
with
him,
and
they
crossed
the
Jordan.
By
daybreak
not
one
was
left
who
had
not
crossed
the
Jordan.
17:23 When
Ahithophel
saw
that
his
counsel
was
not
followed,
he
saddled
his
donkey
and
went
off
home
to
his
own
city.
He
set
his
house
in
order
and
hanged
himself,
and
he
died
and
was
buried
in
the
tomb
of
his
father.
17:24 Then
David
came
to
Mahanaim.
And
Absalom
crossed
the
Jordan
with
all
the
men
of
Israel.
17:25 Now
Absalom
had
set
Amasa
over
the
army
instead
of
Joab.
Amasa
was
the
son
of
a
man
named
Ithra
the
Ishmaelite,
who
had
married
Abigal
the
daughter
of
Nahash,
sister
of
Zeruiah,
Joab's
mother.
17:26 And
Israel
and
Absalom
encamped
in
the
land
of
Gilead.
17:27 When
David
came
to
Mahanaim,
Shobi
the
son
of
Nahash
from
Rabbah
of
the
Ammonites,
and
Machir
the
son
of
Ammiel
from
Lo-debar,
and
Barzillai
the
Gileadite
from
Rogelim,
17:28 brought
beds,
basins,
and
earthen
vessels,
wheat,
barley,
flour,
parched
grain,
beans
and
lentils,
17:29 honey
and
curds
and
sheep
and
cheese
from
the
herd,
for
David
and
the
people
with
him
to
eat,
for
they
said,
"The
people
are
hungry
and
weary
and
thirsty
in
the
wilderness."