Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man enquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel was like this both with David and with Absalom.
I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me live in safety.
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.