There were more than forty of them in the conspiracy.
While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel, one of David’s counselors who lived in Giloh. Soon many others also joined Absalom, and the conspiracy gained momentum.
When someone told David that his adviser Ahithophel was now backing Absalom, David prayed, “O Lord, let Ahithophel give Absalom foolish advice!”
For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.
The next morning a group of Jews got together and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
They went to the leading priests and elders and told them, “We have bound ourselves with an oath to eat nothing until we have killed Paul.
