But you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me if you return to the city and say to Absalom: ‘I will be your servant, my king; in the past I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant.’
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Then Absalom said, “Summon Hushai the Archite as well, and let us hear what he too has to say.”
And David’s friend Hushai the Archite went to Absalom and said to him, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and
In fact, you arrived only yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I do not know where I am going?