3 and bring back all the people to you. When all return except the man whom you seek, all the people should be at peace.”
4 And the saying pleased Aḇshalom and all the elders of Yisra’ĕl.
5 But Aḇshalom said, “Now call Ḥushai the Arkite also, and let us hear what he says too.”
6 And Ḥushai came to Aḇshalom, and Aḇshalom spoke to him, saying, “Aḥithophel has spoken according to this word. Should we do as he says? If not, speak up.”
7 And Ḥushai said to Aḇshalom, “The advice that Aḥithophel has given is not good at this time.”
8 And Ḥushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are as bitter in being as a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. And your father is a man of battle, and would not spend the night with the people.
9 “See, by now he is hidden in some pit, or in some place. And it shall be, when some of them fall at the first, that whoever hears it shall say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who are following Aḇshalom.’