Verse 1

Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 3:3-5 : 3 But your strength, O Lord, is round me, you are my glory and the lifter up of my head. 4 I send up a cry to the Lord with my voice, and he gives me an answer from his holy hill. (Selah.) 5 I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support.
  • Ps 4:8 : 8 I will take my rest on my bed in peace, because you only, Lord, keep me safe.
  • Ps 109:2-4 : 2 For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me. 3 Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause. 4 For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
  • Isa 59:7-8 : 7 Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways. 8 They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.