RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

were on his right hand and on his left.
7 And Shimei said when he cursed, Come out, come out,
you bloody man; you man of Beliyaal:
8 vuvh has returned upon you all the dahm of Beit Shaul,
in whose place you have reigned; and vuvh has delivered
the malchut into the hand of Avshalom your son: and, see,
you are taken in your mischief, because you are a bloody
man.
9 Then said Avishai the son of Tzuruyah to the melech,
Why should this dead dog curse my master the melech?
Let me go over, I beg you, and take off his head.
10 And the melech said, What have I to do with you, you
sons of Tzuruyah? So let him curse, because vuvh has
said to him, Curse Dawid. Who shall then say, Why did
this happen?
11 And Dawid said to Avishai, and to all his avadim, See,
my son, who came out of my loins, seeks my chayim: so
how much more than that can this Benyamite do? Leave
him alone, and let him curse; for vuvh has ordered him.
12 It may be that vuvh will look on my affliction, and that
vuvh will repay me tov for his cursing this day.
13 And as Dawid and his men went by the way, Shimei
went along on the hill's side opposite him, and cursed as
he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
14 And the melech, and all the people that were with him,
became weary, and refreshed themselves there.
15 And Avshalom, and all the people, the men of Yisrael,
came to Yahrushalayim, and Ahithophel with him.
16 And it came to pass, when Chushi the Archite, Dawid's
chaver, was come to Avshalom that Chushi said to
Avshalom, Le-chayim to the melech, Le-chayim to the
melech.
17 And Avshalom said to Chushi, Is this your chesed to
your chaver? Why didn’t you go with your chaver?
18 And Chushi said to Avshalom, No; but whom vuvh,
and this people, and all the men of Yisrael, choose, his
will I be, and with him will I stay.
19 And again, whom should I serve? Should I not serve in
the presence of his son? As I have served in your abba's
presence, so will I be in your presence.
20 Then said Avshalom to Ahithophel, Give your
counsel; what we shall do?
21 And Ahithophel said to Avshalom, Go in to your
abba's concubines, which he has left to keep the bayit;
and kol Yisrael shall hear that you are abhorred by your
abba: then shall the hands of all that are with you be
strong.
22 So they spread Avshalom a tent upon the top of the
bayit; and Avshalom went in to his abba's concubines in
the sight of kol Yisrael.
23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he advised in
those days, was as if a man had inquired of the words of
Elohim: so was all the advice of Ahithophel both with
Dawid and with Avshalom.
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Moreover Ahithophel said to Avshalom, Let me now
choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and
pursue after Dawid this night:
2 And I will come upon him while he is weary and weakhanded,
and will make him afraid: and all the people that
are with him shall flee; and I will smite the melech only:
3 And I will bring back all the people to you: when all the
people return except the man whom you seek; then all the
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people shall be in shalom.
4 And the saying pleased Avshalom well, and all the
zechanim of Yisrael.
5 Then said Avshalom, Call now Chushi the Archite also,
and let us hear likewise what he says.
6 And when Chushi had come to Avshalom, Avshalom
spoke to him, saying, Ahithophel has spoken after this
manner: shall we do what he advises? If not, tell me.
7 And Chushi said to Avshalom, The counsel that
Ahithophel has given is not tov at this time.
8 For, said Chushi, you know your abba and his men, that
they are mighty men, and they are bitter, as a bear robbed
of her cubs in the field: and your abba is a man of war,
and will not be staying with the people.
9 See, he is hidden now in some pit, or in some other
place: and it will come to pass, when some of them are
overthrown at the start, that whoever hears it will say,
There is a slaughter among the people that follow
Avshalom.
10 And he also that is brave, whose lev is as the lev of a
lion, shall utterly melt: for kol Yisrael knows that your
abba is a mighty man, and those who are with him are
brave men.
11 Therefore I advise that kol Yisrael be gathered to you,
from Dan even to Be-er-Sheva, as the sand that is by the
sea for multitude; and that you go to battle yourself in
their midst.
12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he
shall be found, and we will fall upon him as the dew falls
on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with
him there shall not be left even one.
13 Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then shall kol
Yisrael bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into
the river, until there is not one small stone found there.
14 And Avshalom and all the men of Yisrael said, The
counsel of Chushi the Archite is better than the counsel of
Ahithophel. For vuvh had appointed to defeat the tov
counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that vuvh might bring
evil upon Avshalom.
15 Then said Chushi to Tzadok and to Aviathar the
Kohanim, This and this did Ahithophel counsel Avshalom
and the zechanim of Yisrael; and this and this have I
advised.
16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell Dawid, saying,
Stay not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but
quickly pass over; lest the melech be swallowed up, and
all the people that are with him.
17 Now Yonathan and Achimaatz stayed by En-Rogel; so
they might not be seen coming into the city: and a female
eved went and told them; and they went and told melech
Dawid.
18 Nevertheless a youth saw them, and told Avshalom:
but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a
man's bayit in Bachurim, which had a well in its court;
where they went down into it.
19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the
well's mouth, and spread ground corn on it; and the thing
was not known.
20 And when Avshalom's avadim came to the woman to
the bayit, they said, Where is Achimaatz and Yonathan?
And the woman said to them, They have gone over the
brook of mayim. And when they had sought and could
not find them, they returned to Yahrushalayim.