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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Samuel 17 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_samuel/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_samuel/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > 2 Samuel 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/16.htm" title="2 Samuel 16">◄</a> 2 Samuel 17 <a href="../2_samuel/18.htm" title="2 Samuel 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Hushai Misleads Absalom</h3><p class="par"><span class="v10_17_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.1" class="v10_17_1">1</span>Not long after that, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and tonight I will set out after David. </span><span class="v10_17_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.2" class="v10_17_2">2</span>I will attack him while he is tired and discouraged. He will be frightened, and all his men will run away. I will kill only the king </span><span class="v10_17_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.3" class="v10_17_3">3</span>and then bring back all his men to you, like a bride returning to her husband. You want to kill only one man;<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.17.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the rest of the people will be safe.” </span><span class="v10_17_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.4" class="v10_17_4">4</span>This seemed like good advice to Absalom and all the Israelite leaders.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_17_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.5" class="v10_17_5">5</span>Absalom said, “Now call Hushai, and let us hear what he has to say.” </span><span class="v10_17_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.6" class="v10_17_6">6</span>When Hushai arrived, Absalom said to him, “This is the advice that Ahithophel has given us; shall we follow it? If not, you tell us what to do.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_17_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.7" class="v10_17_7">7</span>Hushai answered, “The advice Ahithophel gave you this time is no good. </span><span class="v10_17_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.8" class="v10_17_8">8</span>You know that your father David and his men are hard fighters and that they are as fierce as a mother bear robbed of her cubs. Your father is an experienced soldier and does not stay with his men at night. </span><span class="v10_17_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.9" class="v10_17_9">9</span>Right now he is probably hiding in a cave or some other place. As soon as David attacks your men, whoever hears about it will say that your men have been defeated. </span><span class="v10_17_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.10" class="v10_17_10">10</span>Then even the bravest men, as fearless as lions, will be afraid because everyone in Israel knows that your father is a great soldier and that his men are hard fighters. </span><span class="v10_17_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.11" class="v10_17_11">11</span>My advice is that you bring all the Israelites together from one end of the country to the other, as many as the grains of sand on the seashore, and that you lead them personally in battle. </span><span class="v10_17_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.12" class="v10_17_12">12</span>We will find David wherever he is, and attack him before he knows what's happening. Neither he nor any of his men will survive. </span><span class="v10_17_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.13" class="v10_17_13">13</span>If he retreats into a city, our people will all bring ropes and just pull the city<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.17.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> into the valley below. Not a single stone will be left there on top of the hill.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_17_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.14" class="v10_17_14">14</span>Absalom and all the Israelites said, “Hushai's advice is better than Ahithophel's.” The <span class="nd">Lord</span> had decided that Ahithophel's good advice would not be followed, so that disaster would come on Absalom.</span></p><h3 class="s">David Is Warned and Escapes</h3><p class="par"><span class="v10_17_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.15" class="v10_17_15">15</span>Then Hushai told the priests Zadok and Abiathar what advice he had given to Absalom and the Israelite leaders and what advice Ahithophel had given. </span><span class="v10_17_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.16" class="v10_17_16">16</span>Hushai added, “Quick, now! Send a message to David not to spend the night at the river crossings in the wilderness, but to cross the Jordan at once, so that he and his men won't all be caught and killed.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_17_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.17" class="v10_17_17">17</span>Abiathar's son Jonathan and Zadok's son Ahimaaz were waiting at the spring of Enrogel, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, because they did not dare be seen entering the city. A servant woman would regularly go and tell them what was happening, and then they would go and tell King David. </span><span class="v10_17_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.18" class="v10_17_18">18</span>But one day a boy happened to see them, and he told Absalom; so they hurried off to hide in the house of a certain man in Bahurim. He had a well near his house, and they got down in it. </span><span class="v10_17_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.19" class="v10_17_19">19</span>The man's wife took a covering, spread it over the opening of the well and scattered grain over it, so that no one would notice anything. </span><span class="v10_17_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.20" class="v10_17_20">20</span>Absalom's officials came to the house and asked the woman, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_17_20">“They crossed the river,” she answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_17_20">The men looked for them but could not find them, and so they returned to Jerusalem. </span><span class="v10_17_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.21" class="v10_17_21">21</span>After they left, Ahimaaz and Jonathan came up out of the well and went and reported to King David. They told him what Ahithophel had planned against him and said, “Hurry up and cross the river.” </span><span class="v10_17_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.22" class="v10_17_22">22</span>So David and his men started crossing the Jordan, and by daybreak they had all gone across.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_17_23"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.23" class="v10_17_23">23</span>When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and went back to his hometown. After putting his affairs in order, he hanged himself. He was buried in the family grave.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_17_24"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.24" class="v10_17_24">24</span>David had reached the town of Mahanaim by the time Absalom and the Israelites had crossed the Jordan. ( </span><span class="v10_17_25"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.25" class="v10_17_25">25</span>Absalom had put Amasa in command of the army in the place of Joab. Amasa was the son of Jether the Ishmaelite;<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.17.25!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> his mother was Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and the sister of Joab's mother Zeruiah.) </span><span class="v10_17_26"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.26" class="v10_17_26">26</span>Absalom and his men camped in the land of Gilead.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_17_27"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.27" class="v10_17_27">27</span>When David arrived at Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash, from the city of Rabbah in Ammon, and by Machir son of Ammiel, from Lodebar, and by Barzillai, from Rogelim in Gilead. </span><span class="v10_17_28"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.17.28-2Sam.17.29" class="v10_17_28">28-29</span>They brought bowls, clay pots, and bedding, and also food for David and his men: wheat, barley, meal, roasted grain, beans, peas,<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.17.28-2Sam.17.29!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> honey, cheese, cream, and some sheep. They knew that David and his men would get hungry, thirsty, and tired in the wilderness.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.3: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">like a bride … only one man; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">like the return of the whole, so is the man you seek.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.13: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the city; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">him.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.25: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation (and see 1 Ch 2.17) </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Ishmaelite; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Israelite.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.28-29: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">peas; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">peas and roasted grain.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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