In Context

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

5 Then Absalom said, |Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he says.|

6 When Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, |Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up.|

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

8 Hushai said moreover, |You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

9 Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, 'There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!'

2 Samuel 17:7 in Other Translations