The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 17:5 (KJV)
Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 17:6, "And Ḥushai came to Aḇshalom, and Aḇshalom spoke to him, saying, “Aḥithophel has spoken according to this word. Should we do as he says? If not, speak up.”"

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 17:7 (KJV)
And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 17:8, "And Ḥushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are as bitter in being as a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. And your father is a man of battle, and would not spend the night with the people."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 17:9 (KJV)
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 heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 17:10, “And even he who is brave, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, would utterly melt. For all Yisra’yl knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are brave men."

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Samuel 17:11): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT=&quot]11 But I counsel that all Israel be surely gathered to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea in abundance, and that you personally go into battle.[/FONT]

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Samuel 17:12): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT=&quot]12 So we shall come to him in one of the places where he can be found, and we will fall on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him, not even one will be left.[/FONT]

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Samuel 17:13): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h][FONT=&quot]13 If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not so much as a pebble is left.”[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 17:14 (KJV)
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.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 17:15, "Ḥushai then said to Tsaḏoq and to Eḇyathar the priests, “Aḥithophel has advised Aḇshalom and the elders of Yisra’ĕl such and such, but I have advised so and so."

 

[phil36]

[h=1]2 Samuel 17:16English Standard Version (ESV)[/h][FONT=&quot]16 Now therefore send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’”[/FONT]

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 17:17, "And Yehonathan and Aḥima‛ats were stationed at Ěn Roḡĕl, and a female servant would come and inform them, and they would go and inform Sovereign Dawiḏ, for they could not be seen entering the city."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 17:18 (KJV)
Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 17:19, "And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground grain on it, so the matter was not known."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 17:20 (KJV)
And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 17:21, "And it came to be, after they had left, that they came up out of the well and went and informed Sovereign Dawiḏ, and said to Dawiḏ, “Arise and pass over the water quickly. For thus Aḥithophel has advised against you.”"

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 17:22
New International Version (NIV)

So David and all the people with him set out and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, no one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 17:23 (HCSB)
When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He set his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father's tomb.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 17:24 (KJV)
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.