Quotes about Absalom
So David’s friend Hushai arrived in Jerusalem just as Absalom was entering the city.
- 2 Samuel 15:37
The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
- 2 Samuel 16:8
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.
- 2 Samuel 16:15
Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give me counsel. What should we do?”
- 2 Samuel 16:20
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
- 2 Samuel 16:22
Now in those days the advice of Ahithophel was like the consultation of the word of God. Such was the regard that both David and Absalom had for Ahithophel’s advice.
- 2 Samuel 16:23
This proposal seemed good to Absalom and all the elders of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 17:4
Then Absalom said, “Summon Hushai the Archite as well, and let us hear what he too has to say.”
- 2 Samuel 17:5
So Hushai came to Absalom, who told him, “Ahithophel has spoken this proposal. Should we carry it out? If not, what do you say?”
- 2 Samuel 17:6
Surely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’
- 2 Samuel 17:9
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 17:14
So Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, “This is what Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the elders of Israel, and this is what I have advised.
- 2 Samuel 17:15