2╙┴ 17:1 ═OREOVER ┴HITHOPHEL SAID UNTO ┴BSALOM, ╠ET ME NOW CHOOSE OUT TWELVE THOUSAND MEN, AND ╔ WILL ARISE AND PURSUE AFTER ─AVID THIS NIGHT:
2╙┴ 17:2 ┴ND ╔ 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 ╔ WILL SMITE THE KING ONLY:
2╙┴ 17:3 ┴ND ╔ 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.
2╙┴ 17:4 ┴ND THE SAYING PLEASED ┴BSALOM WELL, AND ALL THE ELDERS OF ╔SRAEL.
2╙┴ 17:5 ╘HEN SAID ┴BSALOM, ├ALL NOW ╚USHAI THE ┴RCHITE ALSO, AND LET US HEAR LIKEWISE WHAT HE SAITH.
2╙┴ 17:6 ┴ND WHEN ╚USHAI WAS COME TO ┴BSALOM, ┴BSALOM SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING, ┴HITHOPHEL HATH SPOKEN AFTER THIS MANNER: SHALL WE DO AFTER HIS SAYING? IF NOT; SPEAK THOU.
2╙┴ 17:7 ┴ND ╚USHAI SAID UNTO ┴BSALOM, ╘HE COUNSEL THAT ┴HITHOPHEL HATH GIVEN IS NOT GOOD AT THIS TIME.
2╙┴ 17:8 ╞OR, SAID ╚USHAI, 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.
2╙┴ 17:9 ┬EHOLD, 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, ╘HERE IS A SLAUGHTER AMONG THE PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW ┴BSALOM.
2╙┴ 17:10 ┴ND HE ALSO THAT IS VALIANT, WHOSE HEART IS AS THE HEART OF A LION, SHALL UTTERLY MELT: FOR ALL ╔SRAEL KNOWETH THAT THY FATHER IS A MIGHTY MAN, AND THEY WHICH BE WITH HIM ARE VALIANT MEN.
2╙┴ 17:11 ╘HEREFORE ╔ COUNSEL THAT ALL ╔SRAEL BE GENERALLY GATHERED UNTO THEE, FROM ─AN EVEN TO ┬EERSHEBA, AS THE SAND THAT IS BY THE SEA FOR MULTITUDE; AND THAT THOU GO TO BATTLE IN THINE OWN PERSON.
2╙┴ 17:12 ╙O 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.
2╙┴ 17:13 ═OREOVER, IF HE BE GOTTEN INTO A CITY, THEN SHALL ALL ╔SRAEL BRING ROPES TO THAT CITY, AND WE WILL DRAW IT INTO THE RIVER, UNTIL THERE BE NOT ONE SMALL STONE FOUND THERE.
2╙┴ 17:14 ┴ND ┴BSALOM AND ALL THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL SAID, ╘HE COUNSEL OF ╚USHAI THE ┴RCHITE IS BETTER THAN THE COUNSEL OF ┴HITHOPHEL. ╞OR THE ╠╧╥─ HAD APPOINTED TO DEFEAT THE GOOD COUNSEL OF ┴HITHOPHEL, TO THE INTENT THAT THE ╠╧╥─ MIGHT BRING EVIL UPON ┴BSALOM.
2╙┴ 17:15 ╘HEN SAID ╚USHAI UNTO ┌ADOK AND TO ┴BIATHAR THE PRIESTS, ╘HUS AND THUS DID ┴HITHOPHEL COUNSEL ┴BSALOM AND THE ELDERS OF ╔SRAEL; AND THUS AND THUS HAVE ╔ COUNSELLED.
2╙┴ 17:16 ╬OW THEREFORE SEND QUICKLY, AND TELL ─AVID, SAYING, ╠ODGE 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.
2╙┴ 17:17 ╬OW ╩ONATHAN AND ┴HIMAAZ STAYED BY ┼NROGEL; FOR THEY MIGHT NOT BE SEEN TO COME INTO THE CITY: AND A WENCH WENT AND TOLD THEM; AND THEY WENT AND TOLD KING ─AVID.
2╙┴ 17:18 ╬EVERTHELESS A LAD SAW THEM, AND TOLD ┴BSALOM: BUT THEY WENT BOTH OF THEM AWAY QUICKLY, AND CAME TO A MAN'S HOUSE IN ┬AHURIM, WHICH HAD A WELL IN HIS COURT; WHITHER THEY WENT DOWN.
2╙┴ 17:19 ┴ND THE WOMAN TOOK AND SPREAD A COVERING OVER THE WELL'S MOUTH, AND SPREAD GROUND CORN THEREON; AND THE THING WAS NOT KNOWN.
2╙┴ 17:20 ┴ND WHEN ┴BSALOM'S SERVANTS CAME TO THE WOMAN TO THE HOUSE, THEY SAID, ╫HERE IS ┴HIMAAZ AND ╩ONATHAN? ┴ND THE WOMAN SAID UNTO THEM, ╘HEY BE GONE OVER THE BROOK OF WATER. ┴ND WHEN THEY HAD SOUGHT AND COULD NOT FIND THEM, THEY RETURNED TO ╩ERUSALEM.
2╙┴ 17:21 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER THEY WERE DEPARTED, THAT THEY CAME UP OUT OF THE WELL, AND WENT AND TOLD KING ─AVID, AND SAID UNTO ─AVID, ┴RISE, AND PASS QUICKLY OVER THE WATER: FOR THUS HATH ┴HITHOPHEL COUNSELLED AGAINST YOU.
2╙┴ 17:22 ╘HEN ─AVID AROSE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, AND THEY PASSED OV R ╩ORDAN: BY THE MORNING LIGHT THERE LACKED NOT ONE OF THEM THAT WAS NOT GONE OVER ╩ORDAN.
2╙┴ 17:23 ┴ND WHEN ┴HITHOPHEL 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.
2╙┴ 17:24 ╘HEN ─AVID CAME TO ═AHANAIM. ┴ND ┴BSALOM PASSED OVER ╩ORDAN, HE AND ALL THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL WITH HIM.
2╙┴ 17:25 ┴ND ┴BSALOM MADE ┴MASA CAPTAIN OF THE HOST INSTEAD OF ╩OAB: WHICH ┴MASA WAS A MAN'S SON, WHOSE NAME WAS ╔THRA AN ╔SRAELITE, THAT WENT IN TO ┴BIGAIL THE DAUGHTER OF ╬AHASH, SISTER TO ┌ERUIAH ╩OAB'S MOTHER.
2╙┴ 17:26 ╙O ╔SRAEL AND ┴BSALOM PITCHED IN THE LAND OF ╟ILEAD.
2╙┴ 17:27 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ─AVID WAS COME TO ═AHANAIM, THAT ╙HOBI THE SON OF ╬AHASH OF ╥ABBAH OF THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON, AND ═ACHIR THE SON OF ┴MMIEL OF ╠ODEBAR, AND ┬ARZILLAI THE ╟ILEADITE OF ╥OGELIM,
2╙┴ 17:28 ┬ROUGHT BEDS, AND BASONS, AND EARTHEN VESSELS, AND WHEAT, AND BARLEY, AND FLOUR, AND PARCHED CORN, AND BEANS, AND LENTILES, AND PARCHED PULSE,
2╙┴ 17:29 ┴ND HONEY, AND BUTTER, AND SHEEP, AND CHEESE OF KINE, FOR ─AVID, AND FOR THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, TO EAT: FOR THEY SAID, ╘HE PEOPLE IS HUNGRY, AND WEARY, AND THIRSTY, IN THE WILDERNESS.
