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 15:31And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
• Ps 41:9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
• Josh 15:51And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
• Titus 1:16They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
• Ps 55:12–14For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
• 2 Sam 17:14And 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.
• 2 Sam 17:23And 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.
• Prov 21:27The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
• 1 Kgs 21:12They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
• Num 23:1And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
• 1 Chr 27:33And Ahithophel was the king’s counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was the king’s companion:
• Isa 1:10–16Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
• 2 Sam 16:20–23Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.
• Ps 43:1–2Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
• John 13:18I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
• Ps 50:16–21But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
• Ps 3:1–2Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
• Num 23:14And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
• Num 23:30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
• Mic 7:5–6Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
• 1 Kgs 21:9And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:

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