1Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

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

2I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him shall flee. I will strike the king only;

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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 to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. 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

4The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

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

5Then Absalom said, "Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he says."

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

6When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, "Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up."

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7Hushai said to Absalom, "The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good."

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Proverbs 31:8, Proverbs 31:8

8Hushai said moreover, "You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, 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

9Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, 'There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!'

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

10Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.

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

11But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

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

12So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave 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

13Moreover, if he be gone into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn't one small stone found there."

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

14Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring evil on 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

15Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, "Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.

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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, 'Do not lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are 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

17Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come 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 boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

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

19The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.

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

20Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

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

21It happened, after they had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, "Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you."

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

22Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

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

23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb 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

24Then David came to Mahanaim. 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

25Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

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

26Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

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

27It happened, 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 Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite 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 beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,

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

29honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, "The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, 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