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• 2 Samuel 16:20

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

• 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.

• Acts 15:1

  Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

• Acts 15:2

  Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

• Acts 15:3

  They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

• Acts 15:4

  When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.

• Acts 15:5

  But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

• Acts 15:6

  The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

• Acts 15:7

  When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.

• Acts 15:8

  God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

• Acts 15:9

  He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

• Acts 15:10

  Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

• Acts 15:11

  But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

• Acts 15:12

  All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

• Acts 15:13

  After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.

• Acts 15:14

  Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.

• Acts 15:15

  This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,

• Acts 15:16

  ‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,

• Acts 15:17

  That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.

• Acts 15:18

  All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.’

• Acts 15:19

  “Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

• Acts 15:20

  but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

• Acts 15:21

  For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

• Acts 15:22

  Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

• Acts 15:23

  They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

• Acts 15:24

  Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

• Acts 15:25

  it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

• Acts 15:26

  men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Acts 15:27

  We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.

• Acts 15:28

  For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

• Acts 15:29

  that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”