10:016:022 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and
           Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of
           all Israel.

10:016:023 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those
           days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God:  so
           was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with
           Absalom.

10:017:001 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out
           twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David
           this night: 

10:017:002 And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed,
           and will make him afraid:  and all the people that are with him
           shall flee; and I will smite the king only: 

10:017:003 And I will bring back all the people unto thee:  the man whom
           thou seekest is as if all returned:  so all the people shall be
           in peace.

10:017:004 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of
           Israel.

10:017:005 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let
           us hear likewise what he saith.

10:017:006 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him,
           saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner:  shall we do
           after his saying? if not; speak thou.

10:017:007 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath
           given is not good at this time.

10:017:008 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that
           they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a
           bear robbed of her whelps in the field:  and thy father is a
           man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

10:017:009 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place:  and
           it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the
           first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a
           slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

10:017:010 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a
           lion, shall utterly melt:  for all Israel knoweth that thy
           father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant
           men.

10:017:011 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto
           thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the
           sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own
           person.

10:017:012 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be
           found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the
           ground:  and of him and of all the men that are with him there
           shall not be left so much as one.