but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Samuel 15:34 in context
2 Samuel 15:31–37
31
Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”
David said, “LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
32
When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn and earth on his head.
33
David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;
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but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’
35
Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
36
Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.”
37
So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
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