2 Samuel 17:13-15

Good News Translation

¹³ If he retreats into a city, our people will all bring ropes and just pull the city^[a] into the valley below. Not a single stone will be left there on top of the hill.”

¹⁴ Absalom and all the Israelites said, “Hushai's advice is better than Ahithophel's.” The Lord had decided that Ahithophel's good advice would not be followed, so that disaster would come on Absalom.

David Is Warned and Escapes

¹⁵ Then Hushai told the priests Zadok and Abiathar what advice he had given to Absalom and the Israelite leaders and what advice Ahithophel had given.