4 Absalom thought that good, and so dyd all the Elders in Israel.
5 But Absalom sayde: I praye you call Chusai the Arachite also, and let vs heare what he sayeth therto.
6 And wha Chusai came in to Absalom, Absalom saide vnto him: Thus hath Achitophel spoken, Saye thou now, shal we do it or not?
7 Then sayde Chusai vnto Absalom: It is no good councell yt Achitophel hath geuen at this tyme.
8 And 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.
9 Beholde, 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: