¹¹ No, my counsel is to take your time. Gather the people of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, so that you have a large army, like the grains of sand on the beach, and lead them into battle yourself. ¹² Wherever David is, we will fall on him like the dew on the ground. We’ll kill him and all who defend him. No one will remain. ¹³ And if he slips into a fortified city, we’ll have so many men of Israel that we could lasso that city and pull it down into the valley, so that not even a stone would be left in place.