1And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.

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Isaiah 59:7, Isaiah 59:8, Isaiah 59:7, Isaiah 59:8, Proverbs 4:16

2And coming upon him (for he is now weary, and weak handed) I will defeat him: and when all the people is put to flight that is with him, I will kill the king who will be left alone.

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2 Samuel 16:14, 1 Kings 22:31, 2 Samuel 16:14, 1 Kings 22:31, Zechariah 13:7

3And I will bring back all the people, as if they were but one man: for thou seekest but one man: and all the people shall be in peace.

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1 Thessalonians 5:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 2 Samuel 3:21, Isaiah 48:22, Isaiah 57:21

4And his saying pleased Absalom, and all the ancients of Israel.

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Esther 5:14, Romans 1:32, 2 Chronicles 30:4, Esther 1:21, 1 Samuel 23:21

5But Absalom said: Call Chusai the Arachite, and let us hear what he also saith.

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2 Samuel 15:32, 2 Samuel 15:37, 2 Samuel 16:16, 2 Samuel 16:19, 2 Samuel 15:32

6And when Chusai was come to Absalom, Absalom said to him: Achitophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do it or not? what counsel dost thou give?

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7And Chusai said to Absalom: The counsel that Achitophel hath given this time is not good.

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Proverbs 31:8, Proverbs 31:8

8And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy father, and the men that are with him, that they are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as a bear raging in the wood when her whelps are taken away: and thy father is a warrior, and will not lodge with the people.

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Hosea 13:8, Hosea 13:8, 1 Samuel 16:18, 1 Samuel 16:18, Daniel 7:5

9Perhaps he now lieth hid in pits, or in some other place where he liest: and when any one shall fall at the first, every one that heareth it shall say: There is a slaughter among the people that followed Absalom.

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1 Samuel 14:14, 1 Samuel 14:15, 1 Samuel 22:1, Joshua 8:6, 1 Samuel 24:3

10And the most valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall melt for fear: for all the people of Israel know thy father to be a valiant man, and that all who are with him are valiant.

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Joshua 2:9, Joshua 2:11, Joshua 2:9, Joshua 2:11, Deuteronomy 1:28

11But this seemeth to me to be good counsel: Let all Israel be gathered to thee, from Dan to Bersabee, as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered: and thou shalt be in the midst of them.

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Genesis 22:17, Genesis 22:17, Psalms 9:16, Joshua 11:4, Judges 20:1

12And we shall come upon him in what place soever he shall be found: and we shall cover him, as the dew falleth upon the ground, and we shall not leave of the men that are with him, not so much as one.

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Isaiah 10:13, Isaiah 10:14, Obadiah 1:3, 1 Kings 20:10, 2 Kings 18:23

13And if he shall enter into any city, all Israel shall cast ropes round about that city, and we will draw it into the river, so that there shall not be found so much as one small stone thereof.

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Matthew 24:2, Matthew 24:2, Micah 1:6, Micah 1:6

14And Absalom, and all the men of Israel said: The counsel of Chusai the Arachite is better than the counsel of Achitophel: and by the will of the Lord the profitable counsel of Achitophel was defeated, that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.

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2 Samuel 15:34, 2 Samuel 15:34, 1 Corinthians 1:19, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 1:19

15And Chusai said to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests: Thus and thus did Achitophel counsel Absalom, and the ancients of Israel: and thus and thus did I counsel them.

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2 Samuel 15:35, 2 Samuel 15:36, 2 Samuel 15:35, 2 Samuel 15:36

16Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Tarry not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but without delay pass over: lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that is with him.

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2 Samuel 15:28, 2 Samuel 15:28, 1 Corinthians 15:54, 2 Corinthians 5:4, 1 Corinthians 15:54

17And Jonathan and Achimaas stayed by the fountain Rogel: and there went a maid and told them: and they went forward, to carry the message to king David, for they might not be seen, nor enter into the city.

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2 Samuel 15:36, 2 Samuel 15:36, 2 Samuel 15:27, Joshua 15:7, Joshua 18:16

18But a certain boy saw them, and told Absalom: but they making haste went into the house of a certain man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court, and they went down into it.

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2 Samuel 3:16, 2 Samuel 3:16, 2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 19:16

19And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry sodden barley and so the thing was not known.

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Exodus 1:19, Exodus 1:19, Joshua 2:4, Joshua 2:24, Joshua 2:4

20And when Absalom's servants were come into the house, they said to the woman: Where is Achimaas and Jonathan? and the woman answered them: They passed on in haste, after they had tasted a little water. But they that sought them, when they found them not, returned into Jerusalem.

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Exodus 1:19, Exodus 1:19, 1 Samuel 19:12, 1 Samuel 19:17, Joshua 2:3

21And when they were gone, they came up out of the well, and going on told king David, and said: Arise, and pass quickly over the river: for this manner of counsel has Achitophel given against you.

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2 Samuel 17:15, 2 Samuel 17:16, 2 Samuel 17:15, 2 Samuel 17:16

22So David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over the Jordan, until it grew light, and not one of them was left that was not gone ever the river.

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John 18:9, Matthew 10:16, Proverbs 27:12, John 18:9, Matthew 10:16

23But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled his ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and putting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

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Matthew 27:5, Matthew 27:5, 2 Samuel 15:12, 2 Kings 20:1, 2 Samuel 15:12

24But David came to the camp, and Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

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2 Samuel 2:8, Genesis 32:2, 2 Samuel 2:8, Genesis 32:2, Joshua 13:26

25Now Absalom appointed Amasa in Joab's stead over the army: and Amasa was the son of a man who was called Jethra, of Jezrael, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Naas, the sister of Sarvia who was the mother of Joab.

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2 Samuel 19:13, 1 Chronicles 2:13, 2 Samuel 19:13, 1 Chronicles 2:13, 2 Samuel 20:9

26And Israel camped with Absalom in the land of Galaad.

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Joshua 17:1, Deuteronomy 3:15, Numbers 32:1, Numbers 32:42, Joshua 17:1

27And when David was come to the camp, Sobi the son of Naas of Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammihel of Lodabar and Berzellai the Galaadite of Rogelim,

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1 Kings 2:7, 1 Kings 2:7, 2 Samuel 10:1, 2 Samuel 10:2, 2 Samuel 9:4

28Brought him beds, and tapestry, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and fried pulse,

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1 Samuel 25:18, Obadiah 1:3, 2 Samuel 16:1, 2 Samuel 16:2, Isaiah 32:8

29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and fat calves, and they gave to David and the people that were with him, to eat: for they suspected that the people were faint with hunger and thirst in the wilderness.

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2 Samuel 16:2, 2 Samuel 16:2, Isaiah 21:14, 2 Samuel 16:14, Isaiah 21:14