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2 Samuel 15:31

American King James Version (1999)

And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

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And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counceled in those days, was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil on Absalom.

And when Ahithophel 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.

Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he said.

And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given is not good at this time.

He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

Day and night they go about it on the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the middle of it.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the middle thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

That frustrates the tokens of the liars, and makes diviners mad; that turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.




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