And someone reported to David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!

And Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give counsel as to what we shall do.

So they spread out a tent for Absalom on the housetop, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines before the eyes of all Israel.

So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had purposed to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring calamity upon Absalom.

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not carried out, he saddled a donkey, and arose and went home to his house, to his city, put his house in order, and hanged himself, and died; and he was buried in his father's tomb.

Even the man of peace in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me, then I could bear it. It is not one who hates me who magnified himself against me, or I would hide myself from him;

We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in the throng.

Put no faith in a companion; put no trust in a friend; keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;

for the son dishonors the father; the daughter rises up against her mother; the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.

Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages;

And Balaam said to Balak, Build seven altars for me here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.

And he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on every altar.

She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth at the head of the people;

They proclaimed a fast, and seated Naboth at the head of the people.

But to the wicked God says, What is it you do, to declare My Statutes, and to take up My Covenant in your mouth;

When you saw a thief, then you were pleased to be with him, and have been a partaker with adulterers.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with wicked intent!

Hear the Word of Jehovah, you rulers of Sodom. Give heed to the Law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

When you come to appear before Me, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?

My soul hates your new moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

Wash yourselves, purify yourselves. Put away the evil of your doings from My eyes; stop doing evil.

They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and reprobate with regard to every good work.

i1 [A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.]i0 par O Jehovah, how my adversaries have increased! Many are they who rise up against me.

Many are saying of my soul, There is no deliverance for him in God. Selah.

Judge for me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

For You are the God of my strength; why do You cast me off? Why do I go mourning under the oppression of the enemy?