1. And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, `Let me choose, I pray thee, twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David to-night,
2. and come upon him, and he weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people have fled who [are] with him, and I have smitten the king by himself,
3. and I bring back all the people unto thee--as the turning back of the whole [is] the man whom thou art seeking--all the people are peace.
4. And the thing is right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.
5. And Absalom saith, `Call, I pray thee, also for Hushai the Archite, and we hear what [is] in his mouth--even he.'