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do we do his word? if not, thou — speak thou.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Hushai saith unto Absalom, ‘Not good [is] the counsel that Ahithophel hath counselled at this time.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Hushai saith, ‘Thou hast known thy father and his men, that they [are] heroes, and they are bitter in soul as a bereaved bear in a field, and thy father [is] a man of war, and doth not lodge with the people; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>lo, now, he is hidden in one of the pits, or in one of the places, and it hath been, at the falling among them at the commencement, that the hearer hath heard, and said, There hath been a slaughter among the people who [are] after Absalom; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and he also, the son of valour, whose heart [is] as the heart of the lion, doth utterly melt, for all Israel doth know that thy father is a hero, and sons of valour [are] those with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>‘So that I have counselled: Let all Israel be diligently gathered unto thee, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude, and thou thyself art going in the midst; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and we have come in unto him in one of the places where he is found, and we [are] upon him as the dew falleth on the ground, and there hath not been left of him and of all the men who [are] with him even one. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And if unto a city he is gathered, then they have caused all Israel to bear unto that city ropes, and we have drawn it unto the brook till that there hath not been found there even a stone.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Absalom saith — and all the men of Israel — ‘Better [is] the counsel of Hushai the Archite than the counsel of Ahithophel;’ and Jehovah willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of Jehovah’s bringing unto Absalom the evil.</p> <a name="15" id="15"></a><p class="hdg">Hushai's Warning Saves David<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../psalms/55.htm">Psalm 55:1-23</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Hushai saith unto Zadok and unto Abiathar the priests, ‘Thus and thus hath Ahithophel counselled Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and thus I have counselled; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and now, send hastily, and declare to David, saying, Lodge not to-night in the plains of the wilderness, and also, certainly pass over, lest there be a swallowing up of the king and of all the people who are with him.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Jonathan and Ahimaaz are standing at En-Rogel, and the maid-servant hath gone and declared to them — and they go and have declared [it] to king David — for they are not able to be seen to go in to the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And a youth seeth them, and declareth to Absalom; and they go on both of them hastily, and come in unto the house of a man in Bahurim, and he hath a well in his court, and they go down there, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and the woman taketh and spreadeth the covering over the face of the well, and spreadeth on it the ground corn, and the thing hath not been known. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the servants of Absalom come in unto the woman to the house, and say, ‘Where [are] Ahimaaz and Jonathan?’ and the woman saith to them, ‘They passed over the brook of water;’ and they seek, and have not found, and turn back to Jerusalem.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And it cometh to pass, after their going on, that they come up out of the well, and go and declare to king David, and say unto David, ‘Rise ye, and pass over hastily the waters, for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And David riseth, and all the people who [are] with him, and they pass over the Jordan, till the light of the morning, till one hath not been lacking who hath not passed over the Jordan.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And David came to Mahanaim, and Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>and Amasa hath Absalom set instead of Joab over the host, and Amasa [is] a man’s son whose name is Ithra the Israelite who hath gone in unto Abigail, daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, mother of Joab; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and Israel encampeth with Absalom [in] the land of Gilead.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And it cometh to pass at the coming in of David to Mahanaim, that Shobi, son of Nahash, from Rabbah of the Bene-Ammon, and Machir son of Ammiel, from Lo-Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite, from Rogelim, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>couch, and basin, and earthen vessel, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and roasted [corn], and beans, and lentiles, and roasted [pulse], <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/17-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, have brought nigh for David, and for the people who [are] with him to eat, for they said, ‘Thy people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.’</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_samuel/16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Samuel 16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Samuel 16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_samuel/18.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Samuel 18"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Samuel 18" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/2_samuel/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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