2 Samuel 17:2-4

International Standard Version

² “I’ll catch him while he is still tired and weak.^[a] I’ll frighten him so all his people with him desert him. But I’ll only kill the king. ³ Then I’ll bring everybody else back to you. When the man you’re looking for is dead, all the rest of the people will return quietly.”

⁴ Even though this plan seemed like a good idea to Absalom and to all of the elders of Israel,