2 Samuel 16:17-23 ▼

17 And Absalom says to Hushai, “[Is] this your kindness with your friend? Why have you not gone with your friend?”

18 And Hushai says to Absalom, “No, for he whom YHWH has chosen, and this people, even all the men of Israel, I am his, and I abide with him;

19 and secondly, for whom do I labor? Is it not before his son? As I served before your father, so I am before you.”

20 And Absalom says to Ahithophel, “Give counsel for yourself [for] what we do.”

21 And Ahithophel says to Absalom, “Go in to the concubines of your father, whom he left to keep the house, and all Israel has heard that you have been abhorred by your father, and the hands of all who [are] with you have been strong.”

22 And they spread out the tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom goes in to the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel.

23 And the counsel of Ahithophel which he counseled in those days [is] as [when] one inquires at the word of God; so [is] all the counsel of Ahithophel both to David and to Absalom.