2 Samuel 17:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

Moreouer Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me chuse out now twelue thousand men, & I will vp and follow after Dauid this night,

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  • Ps 3:3-5 : 3 But thou Lorde art a buckler for me: my glory, and the lifter vp of mine head. 4 I did call vnto the Lord with my voyce, & he heard me out of his holy mountaine. Selah. 5 I layed me downe and slept, and rose vp againe: for the Lord susteined me.
  • Ps 4:8 : 8 I will lay mee downe, and also sleepe in peace: for thou, Lord, onely makest me dwell in safetie.
  • Ps 109:2-4 : 2 For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue. 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. 4 For my friendship they were mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe to praier.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.
  • Isa 59:7-8 : 7 Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths. 8 The way of peace they knowe not, & there is none equitie in their goings: they haue made them crooked paths: whosoeuer goeth therein, shall not knowe peace.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.

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  • 2 Sam 17:2
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    2And I will come vpon him: for he is wearie, and weake handed: so I will feare him, and all the people that are with him, shall flee, and I will smite the King onely,

  • 2 Sam 16:17-23
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    82%

    17Then Absalom sayd to Hushai, Is this thy kindenes to thy friend? Why wentest thou not with thy friend?

    18Hushai then answered vnto Absalom, Nay, but whome the Lord, and this people, and all the men of Israel chuse, his will I be, and with him will I dwell.

    19And moreouer vnto whome shall I doe seruice? not to his sonne? as I serued before thy father, so will I before thee.

    20Then spake Absalom to Ahithophel, Giue counsell what we shall doe.

    21And Ahithophel said vnto Absalom, Goe in to thy fathers concubines, which he hath left to keepe the house: and when all Israel shall heare, that thou art abhorred of thy father, the hands of all that are with thee, shall be strong.

    22So they spread Absalom a tent vpon the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his fathers concubines in the sight of all Israel.

    23And the counsell of Ahithophel which he counseled in those dayes, was like as one had asked counsell at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with Dauid and with Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 15:11-15
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    11And with Absalom went two hundreth men out of Ierusalem, that were called: & they went in their simplicitie, knowing nothing.

    12Also Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite Dauids counseller, from his citie Giloh, while he offred sacrifices: & the treason was great: for the people encreased still with Absalom.

    13Then came a messenger to Dauid, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are turned after Absalom.

    14Then Dauid sayd vnto all his seruants that were with him at Ierusalem, Vp, and let vs flee: for we shall not escape from Absalom: make speede to depart, lest he come suddenly and take vs, and bring euill vpon vs, and smite the citie with the edge of the sworde.

    15And the Kings seruants sayd vnto him, Behold, thy seruants are ready to do according to all that my lord the King shal appoynt.

  • 2 Sam 17:20-24
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    20And when Absaloms seruants came to the wife into the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Ionathan? And the woman answered them, They be gone ouer the brooke of water; when they had sought them, and could not finde them, they returned to Ierusalem.

    21And assoone as they were departed, the other came out of the well, and went and tolde King Dauid, and sayde vnto him, Vp, and get you quickely ouer the water: for such counsell hath Ahithophel giuen against you.

    22Then Dauid arose, and all the people that were with him, and they went ouer Iorden vntil the dawning of the day, so that there lacked not one of them, that was not come ouer Iorden.

    23Nowe when Ahithophel sawe that his counsell was not followed, he sadled his asse, and arose, and he went home vnto his citie, and put his houshold in order, & hanged him selfe, and dyed, and was buryed in his fathers graue.

    24Then Dauid came to Mahanaim; Absalom passed ouer Iorden, he, and all the men of Israel with him.

  • 2 Sam 15:31
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    31Then one tolde Dauid, saying, Ahithophel is one of them that haue cospired with Absalom: and Dauid sayde, O Lorde, I pray thee, turne the counsell of Ahithophel into foolishnesse.

  • 2 Sam 17:4-9
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    4And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the Elders of Israel.

    5Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let vs heare likewise what he sayth.

    6So when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom spake vnto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken thus: shall we doe after his saying, or no? tell thou.

    7Hushai then answered vnto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath giuen, is not good at this time.

    8For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father, and his men, that they be strong men, and are chafed in minde as a beare robbed of her whelps in the fielde: also thy father is a valiant warrier, and will not lodge with the people.

    9Behold, he is hid now in some caue, or in some place: and though some of them be ouerthrowen at the first, yet the people shall heare, and say, The people that follow Absalom, be ouerthrowen.

  • 2 Sam 17:13-16
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    13Moreouer if he be gotten into a citie, then shall all the men of Israel bring ropes to that citie, and we will draw it into the riuer, vntill there be not one small stone founde there.

    14Then Absalom and all the men of Israel sayde, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better, then the counsell of Ahithophel: for the Lorde had determined to destroy the good counsell of Ahithophel, that the Lorde might bring euill vpon Absalom.

    15Then said Hushai vnto Zadok and to Abiathar the Priests, Of this and that maner did Ahithophel and the Elders of Israel counsell Absalom: and thus and thus haue I counseled.

    16Now therefore sende quickely, and shewe Dauid, saying, Tarie not this night in the fieldes of the wildernesse, but rather get thee ouer, lest the King be deuoured and all the people that are with him.

  • 2 Sam 16:15
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    15And Absalom, & all the people, the men of Israel, came to Ierusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

  • 2 Sam 15:34
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    34But if thou returne to the citie, and say vnto Absalom, I wil be thy seruant, O King, (as I haue bene in time past thy fathers seruant, so will I now be thy seruant) then thou mayest bring me the counsell of Ahithophel to nought.

  • 1 Chr 27:33-34
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    33And Ahitophel was the Kings counseller, and Hushai the Archite the Kings friend.

    34And after Ahitophel was Iehoiada the sonne of Benaiah and Abiathar: and captaine of the Kings armie was Ioab.

  • 2 Sam 20:6
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    6Then Dauid sayd to Abishai, Now shal Sheba the sonne of Bichri doe vs more harme then did Absalom: take thou therefore thy lords seruants and followe after him, lest he get him walled cities, and escape vs.

  • 2 Sam 15:1-2
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    1After this, Absalom prepared him charets & horses, and fiftie men to runne before him.

    2And Absalom rose vp early, & stoode hard by the entring in of the gate: and euery man that had any matter, & came to the King for iudgement, him did Absalom call vnto him, and sayde, Of what citie art thou? And he answered, Thy seruant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 13:27-30
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    27But Absalom was instant vpon him, & he sent Amnon with him, & all the Kings children.

    28Now had Absalom commanded his seruants, saying, Marke now when Amnons heart is merry with wine, & when I say vnto you, Smite Amnon, kil him, feare not, for haue not I commanded you? be bold therefore, & play the men.

    29And the seruantes of Absalom did vnto Amnon, as Absalom had commanded: and al the Kings sonnes arose, and euery man gate him vp vpon his mule, and fled.

    30And while they were in the way, tydings came to Dauid, saying, Absalom hath slaine al the Kings sonnes, & there is not one of them left.

  • 2 Sam 19:7
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    7Nowe therefore vp, come out, and speake comfortably vnto thy seruants: for I sweare by the Lorde, except thou come out, there will not tarie one man with thee this night: and that wil be worse vnto thee, then all the euill that fell on thee from thy youth hitherto.

  • 2 Sam 13:34
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    34Then Absalom fled: and the yong man that kept the watch, lift vp his eyes, and looked, and behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behinde him.

  • 2 Sam 18:15
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    15And tenne seruants that bare Ioabs armour, compassed about and smote Absalom, and slewe him.

  • 2 Sam 13:24
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    24And Absalom came to the King and sayd, Beholde now, thy seruant hath sheepesherers: I pray thee, that the King with his seruants would goe with thy seruant.

  • 1 Sam 27:2
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    2Dauid therefore arose, and he, and the sixe hundreth men that were with him, went vnto Achish the sonne of Maoch King of Gath.

  • 2 Sam 18:19
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    19Then said Ahimaaz the sonne of Zadok, I pray thee, let me runne, and beare the King tidings that the Lorde hath deliuered him out of the hande of his enemies.

  • 2 Sam 15:37
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    37So Hushai Dauids friend went into the citie: and Absalom came into Ierusalem.

  • 2 Sam 14:1
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    1Then Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah perceyued, that the Kings heart was toward Absalom,

  • 2 Sam 15:6
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    6And on this maner did Absalom to al Israel, that came to the King for iudgement: so Absalom stale the hearts of the men of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 13:37
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    37But Absalom fled away, & went to Talmai the sonne of Ammihur King of Geshur: and Dauid mourned for his sonne euery day.