2 Samuel 17
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Nalinlang ni Cusai si Absalom
17 Sinabi ni Ahitofel kay Absalom, “Papiliin mo ako ng labindalawang libong tauhan at ngayon ding gabi'y hahabulin namin si David. 2 Sasalakayin ko siya habang pagod pa siya at nanghihina. Malilito siya at tiyak na magtatakbuhan ang kanyang mga tauhan. Ang hari lamang ang aking papatayin. 3 Ibabalik ko sa iyo ang lahat ng kanyang mga tauhan, gaya ng isang babaing ikakasal sa naghihintay niyang mapapangasawa. Iisang tao lamang ang nais mong mamatay, kaya't ang iba ay hindi masasaktan.” 4 Nagustuhan ni Absalom at ng pinuno ng Israel ang payo ni Ahitofel.
5 Ngunit sinabi ni Absalom, “Tanungin din natin si Cusai na Arkita kung ano ang kanyang maipapayo tungkol sa bagay na ito.” 6 Pagdating ni Cusai, sinabi ni Absalom ang payo ni Ahitofel. Tinanong niya si Cusai, “Susundin ba natin si Ahitofel? At kung hindi, ano ang masasabi mo?”
7 Sinabi naman ni Cusai kay Absalom, “Sa ngayon, ang balak ni Ahitofel ay hindi mabuting sundin. 8 Hindi mo ba alam na ang mga tauhan ng iyong ama'y mga sanay na mandirigma? Mababangis silang tulad ng inahing osong inagawan ng anak. Sa talino ng iyong ama'y hindi iyon matutulog na kasama ng kanyang mga tauhan. 9 Malamang siya ngayo'y nagtatago sa isang hukay o sa ibang lugar. At kung sa unang pagsalakay ay malagasan ka ng mga tauhan, tiyak na ang sinumang makabalita ay ganito ang sasabihin: ‘Natalo ang mga tauhan ni Absalom.’ 10 Matapang ma't may pusong-leon ay matatakot din, sapagkat alam ng buong Israel na magiting na mandirigma ang iyong ama, at hindi aatras sa labanan ang mga tauhan niya. 11 Ganito ang payo ko: ‘Hintayin mo munang ang mga Israelita mula sa Dan hanggang Beer-seba ay matipong lahat na sindami ng buhangin sa tabing-dagat. Pagkatapos, ikaw mismo ang manguna sa pakikipaglaban. 12 Hahabulin natin ang kaaway saanman siya magsuot. Sasalakayin natin siya na parang hamog na pumapatak sa lupa, at wala isa man sa kanilang sambahayan at mga tauhan ang matitirang buháy. 13 Kung siya'y umatras sa isang lunsod, ating iguguho ang lunsod na iyon at itatambak sa bangin upang wala ni kapirasong bato na matira roon.”
14 Pagkarinig niyon, sinabi ni Absalom at ng buong Israel, “Mas maganda ang payo ni Cusai na Arkita kaysa payo ni Ahitofel.” Nagpasya si Yahweh na huwag masunod ang mabuting payo ni Ahitofel upang mapahamak si Absalom.
Nakatakas si David
15 Pagkatapos, sinabi ni Cusai sa dalawang paring sina Zadok at Abiatar ang payo ni Ahitofel kay Absalom at sa matatandang pinuno. Matapos ipagtapat ang lahat, 16 sinabi niya, “Babalaan ninyo agad si David na huwag matutulog ngayong gabi sa may batis sa ilang. Patawirin siya sa ibayo ng Jordan bago mahuli ang lahat, baka mapahamak siya at ang mga kasama niya!”
17 Para walang makakita sa kanila, sina Jonatan at Ahimaaz ay hindi na pumasok ng lunsod; doon na lamang sila naghintay sa En-rogel. Ang anumang balita para kay David ay dinadala sa kanila ng isang aliping babae. 18 Ngunit may binatilyo palang nakakita sa kanila at ito ang nagsumbong kay Absalom. Nang malaman nila ito, umalis agad ang dalawa at nagtago sa Bahurim. Lumusong sila sa balon sa loob ng bakuran ng isang tagaroon. 19 Tinakpan agad ng asawa nito ang balon at kinalatan ng trigo ang ibabaw niyon upang hindi paghinalaang may nagtatago roon. 20 Dumating ang mga alipin ni Absalom at nagtanong sa babae, “Saan naroon sina Ahimaaz at Jonatan?”
“Tumawid na sila sa ilog,” tugon ng babae.
Ginalugad nila ang lugar na iyon, ngunit walang nakita, kaya't nagbalik na sila sa Jerusalem. 21 Pagkaalis ng mga tauhan, umahon sa balon ang dalawa. Nagpunta agad sila kay David at ipinagtapat ang masamang binabalak ni Ahitofel. Pagkatapos, sinabi nila, “Tumawid kayo agad ng ilog.” 22 Tumawid nga si David at ang buo niyang pangkat, at nang magmamadaling-araw, wala isa mang naiwan sa kabila ng Jordan.
23 Nang malaman ni Ahitofel na hindi sinunod ang kanyang payo, umuwi agad siyang sakay ng asno. Matapos mag-iwan ng huling habilin sa mga kasambahay, siya'y nagbigti. Inilibing siya sa puntod ng kanyang ama.
Dumating si David sa Mahanaim
24 Nasa Mahanaim na si David nang tumawid sa Jordan sina Absalom at mga kasamang Israelita. 25 Sa halip na si Joab, si Amasa ang ginawa ni Absalom na pinuno ng buong hukbo. Si Amasa ay anak kay Abigail ni Itra, isang lalaking Ismaelita.[a] Si Abigail naman ay anak ni Nahas, kapatid ni Zeruias na ina ni Joab. 26 Ang mga Israelita at si Absalom ay nagkampo sa Gilead.
27 Pagdating sa Mahanaim, si David ay sinalubong ni Sobi, anak ni Nahas na Ammonitang taga-Rabba. Kasama ni Sobi si Maquir, anak ni Amiel na taga-Lo-debar at si Barzilai, isang Gileaditang taga-Rogelim. 28 May dala silang mga banig, kumot, mangkok at banga. May dala rin silang trigo, sebada, harina, mga butil na sinangag, gulayin, 29 pulot-pukyutan, keso at mga tupa. Ipinagkaloob nila ito kina David at mga kasama nito upang may makain sila, sapagkat alam nilang ang mga ito'y pagod na pagod at nagdanas ng matinding gutom at uhaw sa ilang.
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 17:25 Ismaelita: Sa ibang manuskrito'y Israelita .
2 Samuel 17
King James Version
17 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
2 And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
3 And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.
6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou.
7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time.
8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.
13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
14 And 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.
15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.
16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.
17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.
22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
23 And 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.
24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
25 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that 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, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
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