Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also; let us hear what he too has to say.”
When David was told, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom,” he said, “O Lord, turn the counsel of Ahithophel to folly!” David and Hushai.
This plan sounded good to Absalom and to all the elders of Israel. Counsel of Hushai.
When Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom said to him: “This is Ahithophel’s plan. Shall we follow his plan? If not, give your own.”
He said to them, “What answer do you advise that we should give this people, who have told me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father imposed on us’?”