7And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given is not good at this time.


In Context

4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he said.

6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, Ahithophel has spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak you.

7 And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given is not good at this time.

8 For, said Hushai, you know your father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:7 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

17:7Hushai replied to Absalom, "The advice Ahithophel has given is not good this time.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:7And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given [is] not good at this time.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:7And Chusai said to Absalom: The counsel that Achitophel hath given this time is not good.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:7And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given this time is not good.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:7And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:7And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given this time is not good.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:7And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given, is not good at this time.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:7Hushai said to Absalom, |The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:7And Hushai saith unto Absalom, 'Not good is the counsel that Ahithophel hath counselled at this time.'