2 Samuel 15:9-11

The Voice

So he got up and traveled to Hebron. But this was all part of Absalom’s plan to come to power. ¹⁰ He had secretly planted messengers in all the tribes of Israel with these instructions: “As soon as you hear the trumpet play, then shout that Absalom has been crowned king in Hebron.”

¹¹ Two hundred men from Jerusalem who were ignorant of Absalom’s plan were his invited guests on the journey.