Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight. Isa 59:7-8Pro 4:16Psa 109:2-4Psa 3:3-5Psa 4:8Pro 1:16 I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only, 1Ki 22:312Sa 16:14Jhn 11:50Mat 26:31Zec 13:7Deu 25:18Mat 21:38Jhn 18:4-8 and 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.” 1Th 5:32Sa 3:21Isa 48:22Isa 57:21
The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. 1Sa 18:20-211Sa 23:212Ch 30:4Est 1:21Est 5:14Rom 1:32 Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says.” 2Sa 15:32-372Sa 16:16-19
When 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.”
Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.” Pro 31:8 Hushai 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. Hos 13:81Sa 16:18Dan 7:5Heb 11:32-34Pro 17:121Ch 11:25-471Sa 17:34-361Sa 17:50 Behold, 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!’ 1Sa 14:14-151Sa 22:11Sa 24:3Jdg 20:32-33Jos 7:5Jos 8:6 Even 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. Jos 2:9-111Sa 18:172Sa 1:232Sa 23:20Deu 1:28Exo 15:15Gen 49:9Heb 11:34 But 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. Gen 22:17Jdg 20:1Jos 11:4Psa 9:161Ki 20:101Ki 4:202Sa 12:282Sa 24:2 So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him. 1Ki 20:101Sa 23:232Ki 18:232Ki 19:24Isa 10:13-14Oba 1:3 Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.” Mat 24:2Mic 1:6
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 ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil on Absalom. 2Sa 15:341Co 1:19-20Isa 8:10Pro 19:211Co 3:192Sa 15:31Job 5:12-14Pro 21:30
Then 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. 2Sa 15:35-36 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight 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.’” 2Sa 15:281Co 15:542Co 5:41Sa 20:382Sa 15:142Sa 17:21-222Sa 20:19-20Mat 24:16-18
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and report to them, and they went and told King David; for they couldn’t risk being seen coming into the city. 2Sa 15:362Sa 15:27Jos 15:7Jos 18:161Ki 1:9Jos 2:4-24 But 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. 2Sa 3:162Sa 16:52Sa 19:16 The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known. Exo 1:19Jos 2:4-24 Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” Exo 1:191Sa 19:12-171Sa 21:21Sa 27:11-122Sa 15:34Jos 2:22-23Jos 2:3-5
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. After they had departed, 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.” 2Sa 17:15-16
Then 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. Jhn 18:9Mat 10:16Pro 27:122Sa 17:24Num 31:49
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father. Mat 27:52Ki 20:12Sa 15:121Ki 16:18Psa 5:102Sa 15:311Sa 31:4-5Job 31:3
Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. 2Sa 2:8Gen 32:2Jos 13:26 Absalom 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. 1Ch 2:132Sa 19:132Sa 20:9-121Ch 2:16-171Ki 2:321Ki 2:52Sa 20:4 Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead. Deu 3:15Jos 17:1Num 32:1-42
When David had come to Mahanaim, 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, 1Ki 2:72Sa 10:1-22Sa 9:41Sa 11:1Ezr 2:612Sa 12:262Sa 12:29-302Sa 19:31-39 brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain, 1Sa 25:182Sa 16:1-2Isa 32:8Oba 1:3 honey, 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, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.” 2Sa 16:22Sa 16:14Isa 21:141Sa 17:182Sa 17:2Ecc 11:1-2Isa 58:7Jdg 8:4-6