AHITHOPHEL

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• 2 Samuel 15:12

  Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 15:31

  Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

• 2 Samuel 15:34

  but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’

• 2 Samuel 16:15

  Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

• 2 Samuel 16:20

  Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.”

• 2 Samuel 16:21

  Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong.”

• 2 Samuel 16:22

  So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

• 2 Samuel 16:23

  The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. So was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 17:1

  Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

• 2 Samuel 17:2

  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,

• 2 Samuel 17:3

  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.”

• 2 Samuel 17:4

  The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 17:5

  Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he says.”

• 2 Samuel 17:6

  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.”

• 2 Samuel 17:7

  Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”

• 2 Samuel 17:8

  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.

• 2 Samuel 17:9

  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!’

• 2 Samuel 17:10

  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.

• 2 Samuel 17:11

  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.

• 2 Samuel 17:12

  So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.

• 2 Samuel 17:13

  Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”

• 2 Samuel 17:14

  Absalom 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 Samuel 17:15

  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.

• 2 Samuel 17:16

  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.’”

• 2 Samuel 17:17

  Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.

• 2 Samuel 17:18

  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.

• 2 Samuel 17:19

  The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.

• 2 Samuel 17:20

  Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” 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.

• 2 Samuel 17:21

  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.”

• 2 Samuel 17:22

  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.

• 2 Samuel 17:23

  When 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.

• 1 Chronicles 27:33

  Ahithophel was the king’s counselor: and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.

• Psalms 55:12

  For 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.

• Psalms 55:13

  But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

• Psalms 55:14

  We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.