2 Samuel 16:20-23

New King James Version

²⁰ Then Absalom said to ^(A)Ahithophel, “Give advice as to what we should do.”

²¹ And Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s ^(B)concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you ^(C)are abhorred by your father. Then ^(D)the hands of all who are with you will be strong.” ²² So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines ^(E)in the sight of all Israel.

²³ Now the advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one had inquired at the oracle of God. So was all the advice of Ahithophel ^(F)both with David and with Absalom.