2 Samuel 17 (NET)

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2 Samuel 17:1¹Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me pick out 12,000 men. Then I will go and pursue David this very night.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 59:7-8 Prov 4:16 Ps 109:2-4 Ps 3:3-5 Ps 4:8 Prov 1:16

2 Samuel 17:2²When I catch up with him he will be exhausted and worn out. I will rout him, and the entire army that is with him will flee. I will kill only the kingCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:31 2 Sam 16:14 John 11:50 Matt 26:31 Zech 13:7 Deut 25:18 Matt 21:38 John 18:4-8

2 Samuel 17:3³and will bring the entire army back to you. In exchange for the life of the man you are seeking, you will get back everyone. The entire army will return unharmed.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:3 2 Sam 3:21 Isa 48:22 Isa 57:21

2 Samuel 17:4⁴This seemed like a good idea to Absalom and to all the leaders of Israel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 18:20-21 1 Sam 23:21 2 Chr 30:4 Esth 1:21 Esth 5:14 Rom 1:32

2 Samuel 17:5⁵But Absalom said, “Call for Hushai the Arkite, and let’s hear what he has to say.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 15:32-37 2 Sam 16:16-19

2 Samuel 17:6⁶So Hushai came to Absalom. Absalom said to him, “Here is what Ahithophel has advised. Should we follow his advice? If not, what would you recommend?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

2 Samuel 17:7⁷Hushai replied to Absalom, “Ahithophel’s advice is not sound this time.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 31:8

2 Samuel 17:8⁸Hushai went on to say, “You know your father and his men—they are soldiers and are as dangerous as a bear out in the wild that has been robbed of her cubs. Your father is an experienced soldier; he will not stay overnight with the army.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 13:8 1 Sam 16:18 Dan 7:5 Heb 11:32-34 Prov 17:12 1 Chr 11:25-47 1 Sam 17:34-36 1 Sam 17:50 1 Sam 23:23 2 Kgs 2:24

2 Samuel 17:9⁹At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first, whoever hears about it will say, ‘Absalom’s army has been slaughtered!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 14:14-15 1 Sam 22:1 1 Sam 24:3 Josh 7:5 Josh 8:6 Judg 20:32-33

2 Samuel 17:10¹⁰If that happens even the bravest soldier—one who is lion-hearted—will virtually melt away. For all Israel knows that your father is a warrior and that those who are with him are brave.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 2:9-11 1 Sam 18:17 2 Sam 1:23 2 Sam 23:20 Deut 1:28 Exod 15:15 Gen 49:9 Heb 11:34 Isa 13:7 Isa 19:1

2 Samuel 17:11¹¹My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba—in number like the sand by the sea—be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 22:17 Josh 11:4 Judg 20:1 Ps 9:16 1 Kgs 20:10 1 Kgs 4:20 2 Sam 12:28 2 Sam 24:2 Gen 13:16 Ps 7:15-16

2 Samuel 17:12¹²We will come against him wherever he happens to be found. We will descend on him like the dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of the men who are with him will be spared alive—not one of them!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 20:10 1 Sam 23:23 2 Kgs 18:23 2 Kgs 19:24 Isa 10:13-14 Obad 1:3

2 Samuel 17:13¹³If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 24:2 Mic 1:6

2 Samuel 17:14¹⁴Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel.” Now the Lord had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 15:34 1 Cor 1:19-20 Isa 8:10 Prov 19:21 1 Cor 3:19 2 Sam 15:31 Job 5:12-14 Prov 21:30 2 Sam 16:23 Gen 32:28

2 Samuel 17:15¹⁵Then Hushai reported to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, “Here is what Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the leaders of Israel to do, and here is what I have advised.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 15:35-36

2 Samuel 17:16¹⁶Now send word quickly to David and warn him, “Don’t spend the night at the fords of the wilderness tonight. Instead, be sure you cross over, or else the king and everyone who is with him may be overwhelmed.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 15:28 1 Cor 15:54 2 Cor 5:4 1 Sam 20:38 2 Sam 15:14 2 Sam 17:21-22 2 Sam 20:19-20 Matt 24:16-18 Prov 6:4-5 Ps 35:25

2 Samuel 17:17¹⁷Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying in En Rogel. A female servant would go and inform them, and they would then go and inform King David. It was not advisable for them to be seen going into the city.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 15:36 2 Sam 15:27 Josh 15:7 Josh 18:16 1 Kgs 1:9 Josh 2:4-24

2 Samuel 17:18¹⁸But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 3:16 2 Sam 16:5 2 Sam 19:16

2 Samuel 17:19¹⁹His wife then took the covering and spread it over the top of the well and scattered some grain over it. No one was aware of what she had done.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 1:19 Josh 2:4-24

2 Samuel 17:20²⁰When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them, “They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 1:19 1 Sam 19:12-17 1 Sam 21:2 1 Sam 27:11-12 2 Sam 15:34 Josh 2:22-23 Josh 2:3-5

2 Samuel 17:21²¹After the men had left, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed out of the well. Then they left and informed King David. They advised David, “Get up and cross the stream quickly, for Ahithophel has devised a plan to catch you.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 17:15-16

2 Samuel 17:22²²So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 18:9 Matt 10:16 Prov 27:12 2 Sam 17:24 Num 31:49

2 Samuel 17:23²³When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave of his father.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 27:5 2 Kgs 20:1 2 Sam 15:12 1 Kgs 16:18 Ps 5:10 2 Sam 15:31 1 Sam 31:4-5 Job 31:3 Prov 16:18 Prov 19:3

2 Samuel 17:24²⁴Meanwhile David had gone to Mahanaim, while Absalom and all the men of Israel had crossed the Jordan River.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 2:8 Gen 32:2 Josh 13:26

2 Samuel 17:25²⁵Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 2:13 2 Sam 19:13 2 Sam 20:9-12 1 Chr 2:16-17 1 Kgs 2:32 1 Kgs 2:5 2 Sam 20:4

2 Samuel 17:26²⁶The army of Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 3:15 Josh 17:1 Num 32:1-42

2 Samuel 17:27²⁷When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from RogelimCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 2:7 2 Sam 10:1-2 2 Sam 9:4 1 Sam 11:1 Ezra 2:61 2 Sam 12:26 2 Sam 12:29-30 2 Sam 19:31-39

2 Samuel 17:28²⁸brought bedding, basins, and pottery utensils. They also brought food for David and all who were with him, including wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:18 2 Sam 16:1-2 Isa 32:8 Obad 1:3

2 Samuel 17:29²⁹honey, curds, flocks, and cheese. For they said, “The people are no doubt hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the desert.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 16:2 2 Sam 16:14 Isa 21:14 1 Sam 17:18 2 Sam 17:2 Eccl 11:1-2 Isa 58:7 Judg 8:4-6 Luke 8:3 Phil 4:15-19