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30 David then left, going up the Mount of Olives,[a] crying as he went, with his head covered and his feet bare. All of the people who were with him covered their own heads and climbed up the Mount of Olives,[b] crying as they went along.

31 Just then, someone told David, “Ahithophel is one of Absalom’s conspirators!”

So David prayed, “Lord, please turn Ahithophel’s counsel into foolishness.”

Hushai Serves as a Spy

32 Just as David was coming to the top of the Mount of Olives where God was being worshipped, there was Hushai the Archite to meet him, with his coat ripped and dust all over his head!

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 15:30 Lit. the Olivet
  2. 2 Samuel 15:30 The Heb. lacks the Mount of Olives