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2 Samuel 17 Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
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Shall we do what he says, and if it is not proper, speak” <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>Khushi said to Abishlum: “The advice that Akhithuphil counseled is not good at this time” <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>Khushi said to him: “You are aware of your father and his Servants, that they are mighty men, enraged of soul like a bear that is wounded in the field, and your father is a man Warrior and does not spend the night beside the people <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Behold, he is hidden in one of the countries or in one of the places, and whenever we fall on them, as at the first, and the report is heard that there has been slaughter among the people who follow after Abishlum <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>Even if a man is a mighty man of the army whose heart is like the heart of a lion, he does not surely melt, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that mighty men of the army are with him <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>I counsel that when all Israel are assembled to you from Dan and unto Bar Sheba, and you go on in the middle <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>And we are going against him in one of the countries wherever he is found, and we encamp against him like dew falls over the land, and no man that was with him shall be left with him, not even one <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>And if he will enter a city, all Israel will cast cords on it and we shall drag it unto the valley and we shall not leave even a cricket there <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>Abishlum and all Israel said: “The counsel of Khushi the Arkite is better than the counsel of Akhithuphel!”, and LORD JEHOVAH commanded to nullify the good advice of Akhithuphel, because LORD JEHOVAH would bring evil against Abishlum<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Khushi said to Tsadoq and to Abiathar the Priests: “Thus and so Akhithuphel gave counsel to Abishlum and to all Israel, and thus and so I have counseled <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>Now send quickly and show David and say to him: ‘You should not lodge at night in the plain of the wilderness, but pass through yourself lest you be destroyed, you and all the people that are with you’” <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>And Nathan and Akhimez stood by the side of The Fountain of Qatsra, and a Maid Servant went and she told them, and they went and they told King David, so they could not be seen entering the city <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>And a boy saw them and he told Abishlum, and the two of them went, they entered the house of one man of Bayth Khorim, and he had a well in his courtyard, and they went down into it <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>And a woman took a covering for it and she covered over the well and she spread barley grain over it and no person knew it <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>And the Servants of Abishlum came to the house of the woman and said: “Where are Akhimez and Nathan?” The woman said to them: “They went by themselves from here, because they wanted water and they did not find it, and they returned to Jerusalem”<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>And after they had gone, they came up by themselves from the well and they went, they told King David and they said to him: “Rise quickly and cross over the water, because thus has Akhithuphel counseled against you!” <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>And David rose up and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan, and when the dawn arose, no person remained who did not then cross the Jordan<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>And Akhithuphil saw that his counsel was not confirmed, and he put a saddle upon his donkey and he arose, he went to his house and to his city, and he commanded concerning his house, and he hanged himself and died, and was buried in the tomb of his father<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>And David crossed over to Makhnim, and Abishlum crossed over the Jordan, he and all Israel with him <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>And Amasa appointed Abishlum in the place of Yuab over the army, and Amasa was son of an Israelite man, and his name was Ithra, who had gone in upon Abigel, daughter of Nakhash, the sister of Tsuria, the mother of Yuab <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>And Israel and Abishlum camped in the land of Gelad<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>And when David had come to Makhnim, and Abishi, son of Nakhash, from Rabbath of the sons of Amun and Makir, son of Gemil, from Ludbar, and Barzali the Galadite from Dublin <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>They brought beds and carpets and vessels of a potter, and wheat and barley and parched corn and flour and beans and lentils <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/17-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>And they brought honey and butter and sheep and cheese of cows to David to eat and to the people who were with him, because they said: “The people are hungry and exhausted and parched with thirst in the wilderness!” <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated<br>Translated by Glenn David Bauscher<br>Glenn David Bauscher<br>Lulu Publishing<br>Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing<br>3rd edition Copyright © 2019<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_samuel/16.htm" 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