2 Samuel 17:2-14

2 Samuel 17:2-14

[2] And I will come  upon him while he is weary  and weak  handed,  and will make him afraid:  and all the people  that are with him shall flee;  and I will smite  the king  [3] And I will bring back  all the people  unto thee: the man  whom thou seekest  is as if all returned:  so all the people  shall be in peace.  [4] And the saying  pleased  Absalom  well,  and all the elders  of Israel.  [5] Then said  Absalom,  Call  now Hushai  the Archite  also, and let us hear  likewise what he saith.  [6] And when Hushai  was come  to Absalom,  spake  Ahithophel  hath spoken  after this manner:  shall we do  after his saying?  if not; speak  thou. [7] And Hushai  said  unto Absalom,  The counsel  that Ahithophel  hath given  is not good  at this time.  [8] For, said  Hushai,  thou knowest  thy father  that they be mighty men,  and they be chafed  in their minds,  as a bear  robbed  of her whelps in the field:  and thy father  is a man  of war,  and will not lodge  with the people.  [9] Behold, he is hid  now in some  pit,  or in some  other place:  and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown  at the first,  that whosoever  it will say,  There is a slaughter  among the people  that follow  Absalom.  [10] And he also that is valiant,  whose heart  of a lion,  shall utterly  for all Israel  knoweth  that thy father  is a mighty man,  and they which be with him are valiant  men.  [11] Therefore I counsel  that all Israel  be generally  unto thee, from Dan  even to Beersheba,  as the sand  that is by the sea  for multitude;  and that thou go  to battle  in thine own person.  [12] So shall we come  upon him in some  place  where he shall be found,  upon him as the dew  falleth  on the ground:  and of him and of all the men  that are with him there shall not be left  so much as  one.  [13] Moreover, if  he be gotten  into a city,  then shall all Israel  bring  ropes  to that city,  and we will draw  it into the river,  until there be not one  small stone  found  there. [14] And 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.