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 ordained[4] to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the LORD might bring harm upon Absalom.
"Ah, stubborn children," declares the LORD, "who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance,[1] but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.