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2 Sam. 15:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellory, from his city, even from Giloha, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the peopled increased continually with Absalom.

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Psa. 41:9• ⁹Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. (Psa. 41:9)

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Psa. 55:12‑14• ¹²For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
¹³But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
¹⁴We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. (Psa. 55:12‑14)

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Josh. 15:51• ⁵¹And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages: (Josh. 15:51)

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Psa. 3:1‑2• ¹<<A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.>> Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
²Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. (Psa. 3:1‑2)

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Ahithophel.

2 Sam. 15:31• ³¹And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. (2 Sam. 15:31)

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2 Sam. 16:20‑23• ²⁰Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.
²¹And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
²²So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
²³And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom. (2 Sam. 16:20‑23)

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2 Sam. 17:14,23• ¹⁴And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.
²³And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father. (2 Sam. 17:14,23)

David's.

Psa. 41:9• ⁹Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. (Psa. 41:9)

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Psa. 55:12‑14• ¹²For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
¹³But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
¹⁴We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. (Psa. 55:12‑14)

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Mic. 7:5‑6• ⁵Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
⁶For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. (Mic. 7:5‑6)

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John 13:18• ¹⁸I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. (John 13:18)

Giloh.

Josh. 15:51• ⁵¹And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages: (Josh. 15:51)

while he offered.

Num. 23:1,14,30• ¹And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
¹⁴And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
³⁰And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. (Num. 23:1,14,30)

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1 Kings 21:9,12• ⁹And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
¹²They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. (1 Kings 21:9,12)

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Psa. 50:16‑21• ¹⁶But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
¹⁷Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
¹⁸When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
¹⁹Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
²⁰Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
²¹These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. (Psa. 50:16‑21)

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Prov. 21:27• ²⁷The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? (Prov. 21:27)

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Isa. 1:10‑16• ¹⁰Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
¹¹To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
¹²When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
¹³Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
¹⁴Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
¹⁵And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
¹⁶Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; (Isa. 1:10‑16)

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Titus 1:16• ¹⁶They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. (Titus 1:16)

the people.

Psa. 3:1‑2• ¹<<A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.>> Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
²Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. (Psa. 3:1‑2)

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Psa. 43:1‑2• ¹Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
²For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? (Psa. 43:1‑2)

• He will pretend to have not only a kingly place but a prophet-character, an understanding of the mind of God, just as Ahithophel here, as we see, who had been David's counselor before but is now Absalom's. There is thus a combination of the false prophet with royalty. These at the close will be united in the antichrist. (“2 Samuel 15” by W. Kelly)

• On the one hand royal power (and this was what Absalom was affecting for himself); but along with it there was joined with him a falsely prophetic character typified by Ahithophel. The two were connected together, just as we saw Saul himself at the last finding his resource in the witch of Endor. There was an evil spiritual adviser of the lowest kind to which he was driven. See too Pharaoh and the magicians, also Balak and Balaam. So constantly are these two characters linked in opposition to the Christ of God. (“2 Samuel 15” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, from Giloh, while he offeredb the sacrifices. And the conspiracy gathered strength; and the people increased continually with Absalom.

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Lit. "sacrificed the sacrifices," see Deut. 12.15.