2 Samuel 15:12

Absalom recruits Ahithophel, David's trusted counselor, and the conspiracy gathers strength. The defection of David's wise advisor is a serious blow.

Cross-references · 21

• 2 Sam 15:31Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
• Ps 41:9Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
• Josh 15:51Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
• Titus 1:16They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
• Ps 55:12–14For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.
• 2 Sam 17:14Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
• 2 Sam 17:23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, 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.
• Prov 21:27The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
• 1 Kgs 21:12They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
• Num 23:1Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
• 1 Chr 27:33Ahithophel was the king’s counselor: and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.
• Isa 1:10–16Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
• 2 Sam 16:20–23Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.”
• Ps 43:1–2Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
• John 13:18I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
• Ps 50:16–21But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
• Ps 3:1–2A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
• Num 23:14He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
• Num 23:30Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
• Mic 7:5–6Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
• 1 Kgs 21:9She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

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