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2 Samuel 15:31

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Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”
David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

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2 Samuel 15:31 in other translations

And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

2 Samuel 15:31 · American Standard Version

2 Samuel 15:31 in context

  1. 29Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried God’s ark to Jerusalem again; and they stayed there.
  2. 30David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
  3. 31Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”
    David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
  4. 32When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn, and earth on his head.
  5. 33David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;