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2 Samuel 17:7-9
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7 Hushai replied to Absalom, “Ahithophel’s advice is not sound this time.”[a] 8 Hushai went on to say, “You know your father and his men—they are soldiers and are as dangerous as a bear out in the wild that has been robbed of her cubs.[b] Your father is an experienced soldier; he will not stay overnight with the army. 9 At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first,[c] whoever hears about it will say, ‘Absalom’s army has been slaughtered!’

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  1. 2 Samuel 17:7 tn Heb “Not good is the advice which Ahithophel has advised at this time.”
  2. 2 Samuel 17:8 tc The LXX (with the exception of the recensions of Origen and Lucian) repeats the description as follows: “Just as a female bear bereft of cubs in a field.”
  3. 2 Samuel 17:9 tn Heb “that he falls on them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] at the first [encounter]; or “that some of them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] fall at the first [encounter].”
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