Ahithophel then gives Absalom advice of a more military nature! This is basically to attack David now while he is at his weakest. Moreover, he advises to attack only David himself, so that the people with him can be won over.
If Absalom had followed this advice it would probably have worked, but Absalom turns to Hushai. Hushai counters Ahithophel's advice. His advice is given cleverly, and also involves attacking David, but this time with an all-out assault.
Absalom and his men all found the advice of Hushai to be more acceptable. So the Lord's will prevails. Again we see how the will of the Lord works out. The advice and the decisions made were real, but it is the Lord's will that prevails.
Hushai then gets word back to David about what is going to happen.
Ahithophel committed suicide on seeing that his advice had been rejected.
So the battle began along the lines that Hushai had engineered.
No comments:
Post a Comment