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II Samuel Chapter 17

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In this chapter Absalom, David’s rebellious son, gathers a large army and flees to the wilderness, launching a plot to overthrow his father. The plot fails as Absalom is captured and killed, and the people mourn his death, reflecting the consequences of rebellion and the sorrow of loss.

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(1) Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
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(2) And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
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II Samuel 16:14Deuteronomy 25:18I Kings 22:31Zechariah 13:7Matthew 21:38Matthew 26:31John 11:50John 18:4John 18:5John 18:6John 18:7John 18:8

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Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6I Corinthians 9:22

(3) And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
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II Samuel 3:21Isaiah 48:22Isaiah 57:21I Thessalonians 5:3

(4) And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
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I Samuel 18:20I Samuel 18:21I Samuel 23:21Esther 5:14Romans 1:32II Chronicles 30:4Esther 1:21

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II Kings 4:26II Samuel 19:6II Samuel 18:33

(5) Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.
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II Samuel 15:32II Samuel 15:33II Samuel 15:34II Samuel 15:35II Samuel 15:36II Samuel 15:37II Samuel 16:16II Samuel 16:17II Samuel 16:18II Samuel 16:19

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II Samuel 16:16II Samuel 17:14II Samuel 17:6II Samuel 18:33

(6) And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou.
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II Samuel 17:14II Samuel 16:16II Samuel 18:33II Samuel 15:6II Samuel 15:12II Samuel 13:22

(7) And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time.
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Proverbs 31:8

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II Samuel 17:14II Samuel 16:23II Samuel 15:31II Samuel 17:15II Samuel 16:16II Samuel 17:6

(8) For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
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II Samuel 15:18II Samuel 21:18II Samuel 21:19II Samuel 21:20II Samuel 21:21II Samuel 21:22II Samuel 23:8II Samuel 23:9II Samuel 23:16II Samuel 23:18II Samuel 23:20II Samuel 23:21

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(9) Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
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Judges 20:33I Samuel 22:1I Samuel 24:3Joshua 7:5Joshua 8:6Judges 20:32I Samuel 14:14I Samuel 14:15

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(10) And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
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(11) Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
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II Samuel 24:2Judges 20:1Genesis 13:16Genesis 22:17Joshua 11:4I Kings 4:20I Kings 20:10II Samuel 12:28Psalms 7:15Psalms 7:16Psalms 9:16

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(12) So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.
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I Samuel 23:23I Kings 20:10II Kings 18:23II Kings 19:24Isaiah 10:13Isaiah 10:14Obadiah 1:3

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(13) Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
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Matthew 24:2

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(14) And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
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(15) Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.
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II Samuel 15:35

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(16) Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.
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II Samuel 15:28II Samuel 17:21II Samuel 17:22II Samuel 15:14I Samuel 20:38Psalms 55:8Proverbs 6:4Proverbs 6:5Matthew 24:16Matthew 24:17Matthew 24:18II Samuel 20:19

(17) Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
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II Samuel 15:27II Samuel 15:36Joshua 2:4Joshua 2:5Joshua 2:6Joshua 2:7Joshua 2:8Joshua 2:9Joshua 2:10Joshua 2:11Joshua 2:12Joshua 2:13

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(18) Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
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II Samuel 3:16II Samuel 16:5II Samuel 19:16

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(19) And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
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(20) And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
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(21) And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.
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(22) Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
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II Samuel 17:24Proverbs 27:12Matthew 10:16Numbers 31:49John 18:9

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(23) And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
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Proverbs 16:18Proverbs 19:3II Samuel 15:12II Kings 20:1II Samuel 15:31I Samuel 31:4I Samuel 31:5I Kings 16:18Job 31:3Psalms 5:10Psalms 55:23Matthew 27:5

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(24) Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
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(25) And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
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(26) So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
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(27) And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
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(28) Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
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(29) And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
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