10:017:013 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel
           bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river,
           until there be not one small stone found there.

10:017:014 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of
           Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. 
           For the lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of
           Ahithophel, to the intent that the lord might bring evil upon
           Absalom.

10:017:015 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus
           and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of
           Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

10:017:016 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not
           this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass
           over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that
           are with him.

10:017:017 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not
           be seen to come into the city:  and a wench went and told them;
           and they went and told king David.

10:017:018 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom:  but they went
           both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in
           Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went
           down.

10:017:019 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s
           mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not
           known.

10:017:020 And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house,
           they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan?  And the woman said
           unto them, They be gone over the brook of water.  And when they
           had sought and could not find them, they returned to
           Jerusalem.

10:017:021 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came
           up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said
           unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water:  for thus
           hath Ahithophel counselled against you.

10:017:022 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and
           they passed over Jordan:  by the morning light there lacked not
           one of them that was not gone over Jordan.

10:017:023 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he
           saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to
           his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself,
           and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

10:017:024 Then David came to Mahanaim.  And Absalom passed over Jordan,
           he and all the men of Israel with him.

10:017:025 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: 
           which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an
           Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash,
           sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.