2 Samuel 17

1 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight. 2 I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only, 3 and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace."

4 The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. 5 Then Absalom said, "Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says."

6 When Hushai had 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!’ 10 Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men. 11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person. 12 So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him. 13 Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there."

14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, "Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way. 16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’"

17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and report to them, and they went and told King David; for they couldn’t risk being seen coming into the city. 18 But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there. 19 The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known. 20 Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?"

The woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water."

When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem. 21 After they had departed, they came up out of the well and went and told King David; and they said to David, "Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you."

22 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

24 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. 25 Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother. 26 Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

27 When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, 28 brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain, 29 honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him to eat; for they said, "The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness."

Ka Tinihanga a Huhai i a Apohārama

1 I mea anō a Ahitopere ki a Apohārama, "Tēnā kia whiriwhiria ētahi tāngata e ahau, kia kotahi tekau mā rua mano, kia whakatika ahau ki te whai i a Rāwiri i te pō nei. 2 Ā, ka huakina ia e ahau i a ia e ngenge ana, i ngā ringa e kahakore ana. Nā, ka whakaoho ahau i a ia, ā, ka rere tōna nuinga katoa. Ko reira ahau patu ai i te kīngi, i a ia anake; 3 ā, ka whakahokia mai e ahau te iwi katoa ki a koe. Ko te hokinga mai tēnei o te katoa, ki te mau te tangata e whāia nei e koe, pēnei ka āta noho te iwi katoa." 4 Nā, tika tonu taua kupu ki te whakaaro o Apohārama, ki te whakaaro hoki o ngā kaumātua katoa o Īharaira.

5 Nā, ka mea a Apohārama, "Tēnā, karangatia anō hoki a Huhai Araki, kia rongo ai tātou ki tāna kupu." 6 Ā, nō te taenga o Huhai ki a Apohārama, ka kōrero a Apohārama ki a ia, ka mea, "Ko te kupu tēnei i kōrero ai a Ahitopere; me mea rānei e tātou tāna i kōrero ai? Ki te kāhore, kōrero mai?"

7 Nā, ka mea a Huhai ki a Apohārama, "Ko te whakaaro i whakaaro ai a Ahitopere i tēnei wā nei, kāhore i pai." 8 I mea hoki a Huhai, "E mōhio ana koe ki tōu pāpā, rātou ko āna tāngata, he toa rātou, e mamae ana hoki ō rātou ngākau, e rite tonu ana ki te pea kua tangohia nei āna kūao i te pārae; he tangata whawhai hoki tōu pāpā; e kore e moe i roto i ngā tāngata. 9 Nanā, kei te piri tērā i roto i tētahi rua, i tētahi atu wāhi rānei. Nā, ākuanei, hei te hinganga o ētahi o rātou i te tīmatanga, ā, ka rongo tētahi, ka kī ia, ‘Kua pā te patu ki te hunga e whai ana i a Apohārama.’ 10 Ahakoa ko wai tētahi toa, i rite tōna ngākau ki tō te raiona, ka ngohe noa iho; e mōhio ana hoki a Īharaira katoa he mārohirohi tōu pāpā, he toa hoki āna tāngata.

11 "Koia ahau ka mea ai: Me āta kohikohi ki a koe a Īharaira katoa, o Rāna ā tae noa ki Peerehepa; kia rite ki te onepū i te moana te tini; me haere anō hoki koe, a koe nā anō, ki te tatauranga. 12 Nā, ka whakaekea ia e tātou ki tētahi wāhi e kitea ai ia; ā, ka tau iho ki runga ki a ia, ka pērā anō me te tōmairangi e tau ana ki runga ki te oneone. Ā, ko ia me āna tāngata katoa, e kore e mahue tētahi i a tātou ahakoa kia kotahi nei. 13 Ā, ki te tomo ia ki tētahi pā, nā, ka mau taura atu a Īharaira katoa ki taua pā, ka tōia taua pā e tātou ki roto ki te awa, kia kore rā anō e kitea tētahi kōhatu, ahakoa ririki, ki reira."

14 Nā, ka mea a Apohārama rātou ko ngā tāngata katoa o Īharaira, "Pai atu te whakaaro o Huhai Araki i te whakaaro o Ahitopere." Nā Ihowā hoki te tikanga kia whakatakā te whakaaro pai o Ahitopere, kia kawea ai he kino e Ihowā ki runga ki a Apohārama.

Ka Whakatūpatoria a Rāwiri kia Rere

15 Kātahi a Huhai ka mea ki ngā tohunga, ki a Hāroko rāua ko Apiātara, "Ko ngā whakaaro tēnei o Ahitopere ki a Apohārama rātou ko ngā kaumātua o Īharaira; ko ōku whakaaro hoki ēnei i whakatakoto atu nei. 16 Nā, kia hohoro te tono tāngata ki te whakaatu ki a Rāwiri; mea atu, ‘Kaua e moe i tēnei pō ki ngā kauanga i te koraha; engari kia hohoro te whiti atu, kei horomia ake te kīngi me tōna nuinga katoa.’ "

17 Nā, i Enerōkere a Honatana rāua ko Ahimāta e tatari ana; kīhai hoki i āhei kia kitea e haere mai ana ki te pā. Nā, ka haere tētahi pononga wahine, ka whakaatu ki a rāua, ā, haere ana rāua ki te whakaatu ki a Kīngi Rāwiri. 18 Otiia i kitea rāua e tētahi taitamariki, ā, kōrerotia atu ana e ia ki a Apohārama; heoi hohoro tonu rāua, ā, ka tae ki te whare o tētahi tangata i Pahurimi. Nā, he poka wai tāna i tōna marae, ā, heke iho ana rāua ki reira. 19 Nā, ka tīkina tētahi hīpoki e te wahine, taupokina ana e ia ki te poka, nā, horahia ana e ia he wīti tuki ki runga, ā, kīhai taua mea i mōhiotia.

20 Nā, ka tae ngā tāngata a Apohārama ki te wahine, ki te whare, ka mea, "Kei hea a Ahimāta rāua ko Honatana?"

Nā, ka mea te wahine ki a rātou, "Kua whiti rāua i te awa wai." Nā, ka rapu rātou, ā, kīhai i kitea, ā, hoki ana ki Hiruhārama.

21 Ā, i muri i tō rātou haerenga, ka piki ake rāua i roto i te poka, ā, haere ana, whakaatu ana ki a Kīngi Rāwiri; i mea ki a Rāwiri, "Whakatika, hohoro koutou te whiti atu i te wai nei; ko te whakaaro hoki tēnei o Ahitopere mō koutou." 22 Kātahi ka whakatika a Rāwiri rātou ko tōna nuinga katoa, ā, whiti ana i Horano; ao rawa ake te rā, kīhai tētahi i kore te whiti i Horano.

23 Ā, i te kitenga o Ahitopere kīhai i meatia tāna i whakaaro ai, whakanohoia ana e ia tana kāihe, ā, whakatika ana, haere ana ki tōna whare ki tōna pā, nā, kei te whakariterite i ngā mea o tōna whare, tārona ana i a ia, ā, mate ake, tanumia iho ki te tanumanga o tōna pāpā.

24 Kātahi ka haere a Rāwiri ki Mahanaima, ā, i whiti anō a Apohārama i Horano me ngā tāngata katoa o Īharaira. 25 Ā, ka meatia a Amaha e Apohārama hei whakakapi mō Ioapa, hei rangatira mō te ope. Nā, he tama a Amaha nā tētahi tangata, ko Itira tōna ingoa, nō Īharaira, i haere nei ki roto, ki a Apikaira tamāhine a Nahaha, ki te teina o Teruia whaea o Ioapa. 26 Nā, noho ana a Īharaira rātou ko Apohārama ki te whenua o Kireara.

27 Ā, nō te taenga o Rāwiri ki Mahanaima, ka kawea mai e Hopi tama a Nahaha o Rapa o ngā tama a Āmona, e Makiri tama a Amiere o Rotepara, rātou ko Paratirai Kireari o Rokerimi, 28 he moenga, he peihana, he oko oneone, he wīti, he pārei, he parāoa, he kānga pāhūhū, he pīni, he pī, me ētahi atu mea pāhūhū, 29 he honi, he pata, he hipi, me te tīhi, hei kai mā Rāwiri rātou ko tōna nuinga; i mea hoki rātou, "E matekai ana te iwi, e ngenge ana, e matewai ana i te koraha."