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|2 Samuel 17:1|
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:
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2
|2 Samuel 17:2|
And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:
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3
|2 Samuel 17:3|
And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.
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4
|2 Samuel 17:4|
And the saying was pleasing to Absalom and to the responsible men of Israel.
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5
|2 Samuel 17:5|
Then Absalom said, Now send for Hushai the Archite, and let us give ear to what he has to say.
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|2 Samuel 17:6|
And when Hushai came, Absalom said to him, This is what Ahithophel has said: are we to do as he says? if not, what is your suggestion?
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|2 Samuel 17:7|
And Hushai said to Absalom, Ahithophel's idea is not a good one at this time.
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8
|2 Samuel 17:8|
Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;
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|2 Samuel 17:9|
But he will certainly have taken cover now in some hole or secret place; and if some of our people, at the first attack, are overcome, then any hearing of it will say, There is destruction among the people who are on Absalom's side.
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10
|2 Samuel 17:10|
Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.
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Sugerencias
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