17 Ahithophel said to Absalom, “I would[a] choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.

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  1. 2 Samuel 17:1 Or Let me

17 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

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Their feet rush into sin;
    they are swift to shed innocent blood.(A)
They pursue evil schemes;(B)
    acts of violence mark their ways.(C)
The way of peace they do not know;(D)
    there is no justice in their paths.
They have turned them into crooked roads;(E)
    no one who walks along them will know peace.(F)

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Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

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16 For they cannot rest until they do evil;(A)
    they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.

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16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

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for people who are wicked and deceitful(A)
    have opened their mouths against me;
    they have spoken against me with lying tongues.(B)
With words of hatred(C) they surround me;
    they attack me without cause.(D)
In return for my friendship they accuse me,
    but I am a man of prayer.(E)

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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

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In peace(A) I will lie down and sleep,(B)
    for you alone, Lord,
    make me dwell in safety.(C)

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I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

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But you, Lord, are a shield(A) around me,
    my glory, the One who lifts my head high.(B)
I call out to the Lord,(C)
    and he answers me from his holy mountain.(D)

I lie down and sleep;(E)
    I wake again,(F) because the Lord sustains me.

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But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.

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16 for their feet rush into evil,(A)
    they are swift to shed blood.(B)

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16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

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