2 Samuel 17:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ And Chusai said to Absalom: The counsel that Achitophel hath given this time is not good.

⁸ And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy father, and the men that are with him, that they are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as a bear raging in the wood when her whelps are taken away: and thy father is a warrior, and will not lodge with the people.

⁹ Perhaps he now lieth hid in pits, or in some other place where he list: and when any one shall fall at the first, every one that heareth it shall say: There is a slaughter among the people that followed Absalom.