2 Samuel 17:9
Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some 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.
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7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given not good at this time.
8 For, said Hushai, you knowest your father and his men, that they mighty men, and they chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and your father a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some 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 valiant, whose heart as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that your father a mighty man, and which with him valiant men.
11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.