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2 Samuel 17 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Absalom Calls for Hushai’s Counsel

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Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose 12,000 men that I may arise and pursue David tonight.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:2 - “And I will come upon him while he is weary with his hands falling limp and throw him into utter fright, so that all the people who are with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king alone,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:3 - and I will cause all the people to return to you. [fn]The return of everyone depends on the man you seek; then all the people will be at peace.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:4 - And the word was right in the eyes of Absalom and all the elders of Israel.

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Then Absalom said, “Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what is also in his mouth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:6 - Then Hushai came to Absalom. And Absalom spoke to him, saying, “Ahithophel has spoken [fn]thus. Shall we [fn]carry out his word? If not, you speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:7 - And Hushai said to Absalom, “This time the counsel that Ahithophel has counseled is not good.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8 - Then Hushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men and they are bitter of soul, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. And your father is a man of war, and will not spend the night with the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:9 - “Behold, he has now hidden himself in one of the [fn]caves or in another place; and it will be [fn]when he falls on them at the first attack, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:10 - “And even the one who is a man of valor, whose heart is like 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 men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:11 - “But I counsel that all Israel be utterly gathered to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea in abundance, and that [fn]you personally go into battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:12 - “So we shall come to him in one of the places where he can be found, and we will set down on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him, not even one will be left.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:13 - “If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel shall carry ropes to that city, and we will drag it into the [fn]valley until not even a small stone is found there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:14 - Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had [fn]ordained to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that Yahweh might bring calamity on Absalom.

Hushai Informs David

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Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “[fn]This is what Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel, and [fn]this is what I have counseled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:16 - “So now, send quickly and inform David, saying, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means cross over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:17 - Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, and a servant-woman would go and inform them, and they would go and inform King David, for they could not be seen entering the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:18 - But a boy did see them and informed Absalom; so the two of them went quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard, and they went down [fn]into it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:19 - And the woman [fn]took a covering and spread it over the well’s mouth and scattered crushed grain on it, so that nothing was known.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:20 - Then Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house and said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” And the woman said to them, “They have crossed the brook of water.” And when they searched and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

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Now it happened after they went away, that they came up out of the well and went and informed King David; and they said to David, “Arise and cross over the water quickly for thus Ahithophel has counseled against you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:22 - Then David and all the people who were with him arose and crossed the Jordan; and by [fn]dawn not even one remained who had not crossed the Jordan.

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Now Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not [fn]followed. So he [fn]saddled his donkey and arose and went to his home, to his city, and [fn]set his house in order, and strangled himself; thus he died and was buried in the grave of his father.

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Now David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:25 - And Absalom set Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was [fn]Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:26 - And Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.

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Now it happened that when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:28 - brought beds, basins, pottery, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, roasted seeds,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29 - honey, curds, 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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Lit Like the return of the whole is the man whom you seek
Lit according to this word
Lit do
Lit pits
Lit according to a falling among them
Lit your face go
Or wadi
Lit commanded
Lit Thus and thus
Lit Thus and thus
Lit there
Lit took and spread the covering
Lit the light of the morning
Lit done
Lit bound
Lit gave charge to
In 1 Chr 2:17, Jether the Ishmaelite
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