2 Samuel 17 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Hushai's Counsel

2Sa 17:1Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night;

2Sa 17:2

2Sa 17:2And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:

2Sa 17:3

2Sa 17:3And I will bring back all the people to thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

2Sa 17:4

2Sa 17:4And the saying, pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

2Sa 17:5

2Sa 17:5Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.

2Sa 17:6

2Sa 17:6And when Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not, speak thou.

2Sa 17:7

2Sa 17:7And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given, is not good at this time.

2Sa 17:8

2Sa 17:8For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

2Sa 17:9

2Sa 17:9Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them are overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

2Sa 17:10

2Sa 17:10And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they who are with him are valiant men.

2Sa 17:11

2Sa 17:11Therefore I counsel that all Israel should be generally gathered to thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou shouldst go to battle in thy own person.

2Sa 17:12

2Sa 17:12So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.

2Sa 17:13

2Sa 17:13Moreover, if he shall have entered into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there is not one small stone found there.

2Sa 17:14

2Sa 17:14And 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 appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

Hushai's Warning Saves David

2Sa 17:15

2Sa 17:15Then said Hushai to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counseled.

2Sa 17:16

2Sa 17:16Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

2Sa 17:17

2Sa 17:17Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a maid servant went and told them; and they went and told king David.

2Sa 17:18

2Sa 17:18Nevertheless, a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; into which they descended.

2Sa 17:19

2Sa 17:19And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn upon it; and the thing was not known.

2Sa 17:20

2Sa 17:20And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is 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.

2Sa 17:21

2Sa 17:21And it came to pass, after they had departed, that they came out of the well, and went and told king David, and said to David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counseled against you.

2Sa 17:22

2Sa 17:22Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that had not gone over Jordan.

2Sa 17:23

2Sa 17:23And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died. and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

2Sa 17:24

2Sa 17:24Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

2Sa 17:25

2Sa 17:25And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra, an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

2Sa 17:26

2Sa 17:26So Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

2Sa 17:27

2Sa 17:27And it came to pass, when David had come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

2Sa 17:28

2Sa 17:28Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,

2Sa 17:29

2Sa 17:29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of cows, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

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Hushai's Counsel

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