The Counsel of Absalom and Ahithaphel

Hushai said to absalom, no, for whom the lord and this people have chosen his i will be, and with him i will remain. So they pitched a tent for absalom upon the roof, and absalom went into his father's concubines in the sight of all israel. The counsel which ahithaphel gave was as if one consulted the oracle of god. And david lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the lord standing between earth and heavenand in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over jerusalem. He did not include levi and benjamin in the numbering, for the king's command was abhorrent to joab.