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2 Samuel 17:1
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Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out in pursuit of David tonight.
Moreover Achitofel said to Avshalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue after David tonight.
Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.
Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men and chase David tonight.
Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me pick out twelve thousand men. Then I will go and pursue David this very night.
Then, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose 12,000 men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.
Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose twelve thousand men and let me set out and pursue David tonight.
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Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose 12,000 men that I may arise and pursue David tonight.
Ahithophel said to Absalom: Let me choose twelve thousand men and attack David tonight,
Achitofel said to Avshalom, "Let me now choose 12,000 men, and I will pursue David tonight.
And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me, I pray, choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David to-night;
Ahithophel also said to Absalom, "Now, let me choose 12,000 men to chase David tonight.
MOREOVER Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David this night;
Not long after that, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and tonight I will set out after David.
And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and I shall rise up and pursue David tonight.
And Achitophel sayde vnto Absalom: I wil chose out twolue thousande me, and wyl get me vp, and persue Dauid by nighte,
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:
Ahithophel also said vnto Absalom: Let me choose out now twelue thousand men, and I wil vp and folowe after Dauid this night:
Moreouer Ahithophel said vnto Absalom, Let mee nowe chuse out twelue thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after Dauid this night.
And Achitophel said to Abessalom, Let me now choose out for myself twelve thousand men, and I will arise and follow after David this night:
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
Therfor Achitofel seide to Absolon, Y schal chese twelue thousynde of men `to me, and Y schal rise, and pursue Dauid in this nyyt.
And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, `Let me choose, I pray thee, twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David to-night,
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night;
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Now let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.
Now Ahithophel urged Absalom, "Let me choose 12,000 men to start out after David tonight.
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose 12,000 men, and I will leave and go after David tonight.
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.
Then said Ahithophel unto Absolom: I pray thee, let me choose for myself, twelve thousand men, and arise, and pursue David to-night;
And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.
Moreover Ahith'ophel said to Ab'salom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.
Next Ahithophel advised Absalom, "Let me handpick twelve thousand men and go after David tonight. I'll come on him when he's bone tired and take him by complete surprise. The whole army will run off and I'll kill only David. Then I'll bring the army back to you—a bride brought back to her husband! You're only after one man, after all. Then everyone will be together in peace!"
Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose 12,000 men that I may arise and pursue David tonight.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I will arise: Proverbs 1:16, Proverbs 4:16, Isaiah 59:7, Isaiah 59:8
this night: Psalms 3:3-5, Psalms 4:8, Psalms 109:2-4
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:3 - Absalom 2 Samuel 13:5 - Lay thee 2 Samuel 15:28 - General 2 Samuel 16:11 - seeketh 2 Samuel 17:21 - thus hath Ahithophel 2 Samuel 18:5 - Deal gently Esther 5:14 - the thing Psalms 31:13 - while Psalms 38:12 - lay snares Psalms 43:1 - the deceitful Psalms 55:9 - divide Psalms 55:10 - Day Psalms 71:4 - out of the Psalms 71:10 - take Psalms 86:14 - assemblies Psalms 109:16 - he remembered Psalms 118:13 - General Psalms 119:95 - wicked Psalms 144:11 - and deliver me Proverbs 12:6 - words Matthew 10:21 - the children 2 Corinthians 12:15 - though 1 Timothy 1:9 - murderers James 3:6 - a world
Cross-References
And Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him.
Now the LORD said unto Abram: 'Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee.
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said: 'Unto thy seed will I give this land'; and he builded there an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
And the LORD appeared unto him by the terebinths of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Is any thing too hard for the LORD. At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.'
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a congregation of peoples;
And God said unto him: 'I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
And he blessed Joseph, and said: 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath been my shepherd all my life long unto this day,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Moreover, Ahithophel said unto Absalom,.... Either at the same time, or quickly after he had given the foregoing advice:
let me now choose out twelve thousand men: out of those that were with Absalom, which shows their number to be large; and twelve thousand are pitched upon with respect to the twelve tribes of Israel, a thousand from every tribe; Josephus has only ten thousand;
and I will arise and pursue after David this night; he took upon him to be general of the army, as well as a counsellor; or this he said to show how confident he was of the success of his counsel, that if Absalom, or any other, should decline the conduct of the army upon it, as a hazardous attempt, he would undertake it himself; or rather it may be, he was not willing that Absalom should go out in person with the army, not so much for his own safety, as lest through his affection for the king he should spare him, when he fell into his hands, or they two should be reconciled; he proposed to do it that night, partly for expedition, no time being to be lost, and partly for the greater surprise of David and his men.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This night - The night of the day on which David fled, and Absalom entered into Jerusalem. Ahithophelâs idea was to fall upon David by surprise, and in the first confusion of the surprised army to seize and kill David only.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XVII
Ahithophel counsels Absalom to pursue his father with twelve
thousand men, 14.
Hushai gives a different counsel, and is followed, 5-14.
Hushai informs Zadok and Abiathar; and they send word to David,
15-21.
David and his men go beyond Jordan, 22.
Ahithophel, finding his counsel slighted, goes home, sets his
house in order, and hangs himself, 23.
David moves to Mahanaim; and Absalom follows him over Jordan,
24-26.
Several friends meet David at Mahanaim with refreshments and
provisions, 27-29.
NOTES ON CHAP. XVII
Verse 2 Samuel 17:1. Let me now choose out twelve thousand men — Had this counsel been followed, David and his little troop would soon have been destroyed; nothing but the miraculous interposition of God could have saved them. Twelve thousand chosen troops coming against him, in his totally unprepared state, would have soon settled the business of the kingdom. Ahithophel well saw that, this advice neglected, all was lost.
