Fondare 116 Risultati per: Absalom's rebellion

• But Absalom asked Hushai: "Is this your devotion to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?" (2 Samuel 16, 17)

• Hushai replied to Absalom: "On the contrary, I am his whom the LORD and all this people and all Israel have chosen, and with him I will stay. (2 Samuel 16, 18)

• Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Offer your counsel on what we should do." (2 Samuel 16, 20)

• Ahithophel replied to Absalom: "Have relations with your father's concubines, whom he left behind to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears how odious you have made yourself to your father, all your partisans will take courage." (2 Samuel 16, 21)

• So a tent was pitched on the roof for Absalom, and he visited his father's concubines in view of all Israel. (2 Samuel 16, 22)

• Now the counsel given by Ahithophel at that time was as though one had sought divine revelation. Such was all his counsel both to David and to Absalom. (2 Samuel 16, 23)

• Ahithophel went on to say to Absalom: "Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and be off in pursuit of David tonight. (2 Samuel 17, 1)

• This plan was agreeable to Absalom and to all the elders of Israel. (2 Samuel 17, 4)

• Then Absalom said, "Now call Hushai the Archite also; let us hear what he too has to say." (2 Samuel 17, 5)

• When Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom said to him: "This is what Ahithophel proposed. Shall we follow his proposal? If not, speak up." (2 Samuel 17, 6)

• Hushai replied to Absalom, "This time Ahithophel has not given good counsel." (2 Samuel 17, 7)

• Even now he lies hidden in one of the caves or in some other place. And if some of our soldiers should fall at the first attack, whoever hears of it will say, 'Absalom's followers have been slaughtered.' (2 Samuel 17, 9)