2 Samuel 17
17
1Moreover Achitofel [my brother i foolish] said unto Avshalom [my father is peace], Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David [beloved] this night:
2And 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 strike the king only:
3And I will bring back all the people unto youi: the man whom youi [is] as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace.
4And the saying pleased Avshalom [my father is peace] well, and all the elders of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
5Then said Avshalom [my father is peace], Call now Hushai [hasting] the Arki [lengthy] also, and let us hear likewise what he says.
6And when Hushai [hasting] was come to Avshalom [my father is peace], Avshalom [my father is peace] spoke unto him, saying, Achitofel [my brother i foolish] has spoken after this manner: shall we do [after] his saying? if not; speak youi.
7And Hushai [hasting] said unto Avshalom [my father is peace], The counsel that Achitofel [my brother i foolish] has given [is] not good at this time.
8For, said Hushai [hasting], youi know youri 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 youri father [is] a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
9Behold, 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 hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Avshalom [my father is peace].
10And he also [that is] valiant, whose heart [is] as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] knows that youi father [is] a mighty man, and [they] which [be] with him [are] valiant men.
11Therefore I counsel that all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] be generally gathered unto youi, from Dan [Judge] even to Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath], as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude; and that youi go to battle in youri own person.
12So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falls on the ground: and of him and of all the men that [are] with him there shall not be left so much as one.
13Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
14And Avshalom [my father is peace] and all the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said, The counsel of Hushai [hasting] the Arki [lengthy] [is] better than the counsel of Achitofel [my brother i foolish]. For the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Achitofel [my brother i foolish], to the intent that the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) might bring evil upon Avshalom [my father is peace].
15Then said Hushai [hasting] unto Tzadok [righteous] and to Avyatar [my father is great] the priests, Thus and thus did Achitofel [my brother i foolish] counsel Avshalom [my father is peace] and the elders of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and thus and thus have I counseled.
16Now therefore send quickly, and tell David [beloved], saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed up, and all the people that [are] with him.
17Now Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] and Achima’atz [my brother is anger (wrath)] detained (held) by ‘Ein-Rogel (a place near Jerusalem) [Fount of the Fuller (washer and/or bleacher of clothes)]; 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 [beloved].
18Nevertheless a boy saw them, and told Avshalom [my father is peace]: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bachurim [young men’s village], which had a well in his court; to which they went down.
19And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
20And when Avshalom [my father is peace]’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where [is] Achima’atz [my brother is anger (wrath)] and Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given]? 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 Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].
21And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David [beloved], and said unto David [beloved], Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus has Achitofel [my brother i foolish] counseled against you.
22Then David [beloved] arose, and all the people that [were] with him, and they passed over Yarden [Descender]: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Yarden [Descender].
23And when Achitofel [my brother i foolish] saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled [his] ass, and arose, and got him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
24Then David [beloved] came to Machanayim [Two Camps]. And Avshalom [my father is peace] passed over Yarden [Descender], he and all the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him.
25And Avshalom [my father is peace] made ‘Amasa [burden] captain of the host instead of Yo’av [Yehovah is father]: which ‘Amasa [burden] [was] a man’s son, whose name [was] Yitra [abundance] an Israeli, that went in to Avigayil [my father is joy] the daughter of Nachash [serpent], sister to Tz’ruyah [balsam] Yo’av [Yehovah is father]’s mother.
26So Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Avshalom [my father is peace] pitched in the land of Gil’ad [Rocky Region].
27And it came to pass, when David [beloved] was come to Machanayim [Two Camps], that Shovi [glorious] the son of Nachash [serpent] of Rabbah [Great] of the children of ‘Amon [Inbred], and Makhir [Sold] the son of ‘Ammi’el [my kinsman is God] [My Kinsman is God] of Lo-D’var [not a pasture], and Barzillai [my iron] the Gil’adi [Hill of Testimony] of Rogelim [place of fullers],
28Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched [corn], and beans, and lentiles, and parched [pulse (peas; beans; legumes)],
29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of cattle, for David [beloved], and for the people that [were] with him, to eat: for they said, The people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
Currently Selected:
2 Samuel 17: NMV
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
Text copyright © 2000-2018 TOV Rose
For more information about the NMV, details about why the names of God are notated and translated as they are, or to learn about the special markings and translations used in this text, click below.
Follow the instructions and you will receive the free e-book by email.