2 Samuel 17

¹Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 59:7-8Prov 4:16Ps 109:2-4Ps 3:3-5Ps 4:8Prov 1:16

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: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 22:312 Sam 16:14John 11:50Matt 26:31Zech 13:7Deut 25:18Matt 21:38John 18:4-8

³And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Thess 5:32 Sam 3:21Isa 48:22Isa 57:21

⁴And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 18:20-211 Sam 23:212 Chr 30:4Esth 1:21Esth 5:14Rom 1:32

⁵Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 15:32-372 Sam 16:16-19

⁶And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

⁷And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 31:8

⁸For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Hos 13:81 Sam 16:18Dan 7:5Heb 11:32-34Prov 17:121 Chr 11:25-471 Sam 17:34-361 Sam 17:501 Sam 23:232 Kgs 2:24

⁹Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 14:14-151 Sam 22:11 Sam 24:3Josh 7:5Josh 8:6Judg 20:32-33

¹⁰And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 2:9-111 Sam 18:172 Sam 1:232 Sam 23:20Deut 1:28Exod 15:15Gen 49:9Heb 11:34Isa 13:7Isa 19:1

¹¹Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 22:17Josh 11:4Judg 20:1Ps 9:161 Kgs 20:101 Kgs 4:202 Sam 12:282 Sam 24:2Gen 13:16Ps 7:15-16

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 20:101 Sam 23:232 Kgs 18:232 Kgs 19:24Isa 10:13-14Obad 1:3

¹³Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 24:2Mic 1:6

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 15:341 Cor 1:19-20Isa 8:10Prov 19:211 Cor 3:192 Sam 15:31Job 5:12-14Prov 21:302 Sam 16:23Gen 32:28

¹⁵Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 15:35-36

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 15:281 Cor 15:542 Cor 5:41 Sam 20:382 Sam 15:142 Sam 17:21-222 Sam 20:19-20Matt 24:16-18Prov 6:4-5Ps 35:25

¹⁷Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En–rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 15:362 Sam 15:27Josh 15:7Josh 18:161 Kgs 1:9Josh 2:4-24

¹⁸Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 3:162 Sam 16:52 Sam 19:16

¹⁹And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 1:19Josh 2:4-24

²⁰And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 1:191 Sam 19:12-171 Sam 21:21 Sam 27:11-122 Sam 15:34Josh 2:22-23Josh 2:3-5

²¹And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 17:15-16

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 was not gone over Jordan. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:John 18:9Matt 10:16Prov 27:122 Sam 17:24Num 31:49

²³And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 27:52 Kgs 20:12 Sam 15:121 Kgs 16:18Ps 5:102 Sam 15:311 Sam 31:4-5Job 31:3Prov 16:18Prov 19:3

²⁴Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 2:8Gen 32:2Josh 13:26

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 2:132 Sam 19:132 Sam 20:9-121 Chr 2:16-171 Kgs 2:321 Kgs 2:52 Sam 20:4

²⁶So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 3:15Josh 17:1Num 32:1-42

²⁷And it came to pass, when David was 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, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 2:72 Sam 10:1-22 Sam 9:41 Sam 11:1Ezra 2:612 Sam 12:262 Sam 12:29-302 Sam 19:31-39

²⁸Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:182 Sam 16:1-2Isa 32:8Obad 1:3

²⁹And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 16:22 Sam 16:14Isa 21:141 Sam 17:182 Sam 17:2Eccl 11:1-2Isa 58:7Judg 8:4-6Luke 8:3Phil 4:15-19