4Absalom thought that good, and so dyd all the Elders in Israel.
5But Absalom sayde: I praye you call Chusai the Arachite also, and let vs heare what he sayeth therto.
6And wha Chusai came in to Absalom, Absalom saide vnto him: Thus hath Achitophel spoken, Saye thou now, shal we do it or not?
7Then sayde Chusai vnto Absalom: It is no good councell yt Achitophel hath geuen at this tyme.
8And Chusai sayde morouer: Thou knowest thy father well and his men, that they are stronge and of a wrothfull stomack, euen as a Beer that is robbed of hir yonge ones in the felde, Thy father also is a man of warre, and wyl not be necliget with the people.
9Beholde, he hath now peraduenture hyd hymselfe in some caue or in some place. Yf it came to passe then that it chaunced euell at the first, & there shulde come a rumor and saye: There is a slaughter done in the people that folowed Absalo: