And Ahithophel said to Absalom, I shall choose indeed for myself twelve thousand men, and I shall rise up and pursue after David at night.
And I shall come upon him, and he and loosening and I shall startle him, and shall flee and I shall strike the king alone.
And I shall return all the people to you, in which manner returns to her husband. Besides the life and all the people will be at peace.
And was pleasing in of Absalom, and in of all the elders of Israel.
And Absalom said, Call indeed Hushai the Archite, and I shall hear what his mouth, and indeed of him.
And Hushai entered to Absalom. And Absalom said to him, saying, According to this thing Ahithophel spoke. Shall we do according to his word? But if not you speak!
And Hushai said to Absalom, good, this counsel which Ahithophel counseled this one time.
And Hushai said, You know your father, and his men, that mighty and is very bitter as a bear being made childless in the plain. And your father and in no way shall he rest the people.
For behold he now hides in one of the canyons, or in one of the places. And it will be when fall upon them at the beginning, that the hearing, and should say, There was a devastation among the people, to the one Absalom.
And indeed any son of power whose heart the heart of a lion, in melting away he shall melt away, for knows that is mighty and of power, all the ones with him.
Thus advising, I advised. And in gathering together from Dan and unto Beer-sheba, as the sand upon the sea in multitude. And your presence shall be going in of them.
And we shall come upon him in one of the places, which ever we should find him there. And we shall camp upon him as falls upon the ground. And we shall not leave behind among to him, and of his men with him, even indeed one.
And if into then shall take against and drag it apart unto the rushing stream, unto not leaving behind there neither a stone.
And Absalom said, and every man of Israel, is good over the counsel of Ahithophel. And gave charge to efface the counsel so that the bad things upon Absalom.
And Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, So and so advised Ahithophel to Absalom, and to the elders of Israel, and so and so I advised.
And now send quickly and report to David! saying, You should not lodge the night according to of the wilderness, but by passing over, pass over! so that should not and all the people, the one with him.
And Jonathan and Ahimaaz stopped at the spring of Rogel. And came forth the maidservant, and she reported to them. And they went and reported to king David, for they were not able to appear to enter into the city.
And beheld and he reported Absalom. And went quickly, and they entered into a house of a man in Bahurim, and unto his cistern in the courtyard, and they went down there.
And took and opened and spread out a covering over the mouth of the cistern. And she cooled upon and they did not know the thing.
And came to the woman, into the house, and they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And said They went for a little water. And they sought and did not find them, and they returned unto Jerusalem.
And it came to pass, after their going forth, they ascended from out of the cistern, and went, and reported to king David. And they say to him, Rise up and pass over quickly for thus has counseled
And David rose up, and all the people with him, and they passed over the Jordan until the light of the morning, until one was not unaware of who did not pass over the Jordan.
And Ahithophel knew that he had not taken his counsel, and he saddled his donkey, and rose up, and went forth to his house in his city. And he gave charge his household, and he hung himself, and died. And they entombed him in the burying-place of his father.
And David went through unto Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and every man of Israel with him.
And Amasa instead of Joab over the force. And Amasa of a man, and the Israelite. This one entered to Abigail, daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, mother of Joab.
And Absalom camped and all Israel in the land of Gilead.
And it came to pass when David entered into Mahanaim, that Shobi son of Nahash, from Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,
brought beds, and spreads, and kettles, and utensils and wheat, and barley, and flour, and beans, and lentils and toasted grain,
and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese from oxen. And they brought near to David, and to the people with him to eat; for they said, The people are hungering, and fainting, and thirsting, in the wilderness.