5 Then said Ab´salom, Call now Hu´shai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.
6 And when Hu´shai was come to Ab´salom, Ab´salom spake unto him, saying, Ahith´ophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not, speak thou.
7 And Hu´shai said unto Ab´salom, The counsel that Ahith´ophel hath given is not good at this time.
8 For, said Hu´shai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Ab´salom.
10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.