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Chapter 17 Moreover, Ahithophel said unto
Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve

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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.

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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.

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The man whom thou seekest is as if all
returned.

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So all the people shall be in peace.

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And the saying pleased Absalom well,
and all the elders of Israel.

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Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the
Archite also, and let us hear likewise

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what he saith.

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And when Hushai was come to Absalom,
Absalom spake unto him, saying,

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Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner.

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Shall we do after his saying?

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If not, speak thou.

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And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel
that Ahithophel hath given is not good at

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this time.

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For, said Hushai, Thou knowest thy father
and his men, that they be mighty men,

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and they be chafed in their minds,
as a bear robbed of her whelps in the

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field.

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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.

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And it will come to pass, when some of
them be overthrown at the first,

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that whosoever heareth it will say,
There is a slaughter among the people that

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follow Absalom.

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And he also that is valiant, whose heart
is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly

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melt.

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For all Israel knoweth that thy father is
a mighty man.

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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

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even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by
the sea for multitude, and that thou go to

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battle in thine own person.

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So shall we come upon him in some place
where he shall be found.

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And we will light upon him, as the dew
falleth on the ground.

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And of him, and of all the men that are
with him, there shall not be left so much

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as one.

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Moreover, if he be gotten into a city,
then shall all Israel bring ropes to that

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city, and we will draw it into the river,
until there be not one small stone found

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there.

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And Absalom and all the men of Israel
said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is

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better than the counsel of Ahithophel.

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For the Lord had appointed to defeat the
good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent

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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

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Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders
of Israel, and thus and thus have I

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counseled.

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Now therefore send quickly and tell David,
saying, Lodge not this night in the plains

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of the wilderness, but speedily pass over,
lest the king be swallowed up,

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and all the people that are with him.

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Now Jonathan and Ahimeaz stayed by
Enrogel, for they might not be seen to

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come into the city.

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And a wench went and told them,
and they went and told King David.

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Nevertheless Elad saw them, and told
Absalom.

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But they went both of them away quickly,
and came to a man's house in Behurim,

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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 well's mouth, and spread ground

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corn thereon, and the thing was not known.

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And when Absalom's servants came to the
woman to the house, they said,

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Where is Ahimeaz and Jonathan?

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And the woman said unto them, They be gone
over the brook of water.

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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

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well, and went and told King David,
and said unto David, Arise, and pass

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quickly over the water, for thus hath
Ahithophel counseled against you.

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Then David arose, and all the people that
were with him, and they passed over

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Jordan.

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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,

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and arose, and gat him home to his house,
to his city, and put his household in

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order, and hanged himself, and died,
and was buried in the sepulchre of his

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father.

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Then David came to Mahanaim, and Absalom
passed over Jordan, he and all the men of

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Israel with him.

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And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host
instead of Joab, which Amasa was a man's

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son, whose name was Ithra, an Israelite,
that went in to Abigail, the daughter of

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Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

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So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land
of Gilead.

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And it came to pass, when David was come
to Mahanaim, that Shobai, the son of

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Nahash, of Rabbah, of the children of
Ammon, and Barzillai, the Gileadite of

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Rogalim, brought beds, and basins,
and earthen vessels, and wheat,

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and barley, and flour, and parched corn,
and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,

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and honey, and butter, and sheep,
and cheese of kind, for David and for the

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people that were with him to eat.

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For they said, The people is hungry,
and weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.