10. Then even the bravest soldier, whose heart is like a lion’s, will melt in fear because all Israel knows that your father is a warrior and that those who are with him are brave.
11. So I would advise that all the Israelites, from Dan to Beer-sheba—a group as countless as sand on the seashore—be summoned to join you, and that you yourself go into battle.
12. When we attack him wherever he might be, we will fall on him like dew that falls on the ground. No one will survive—not him and not one of the soldiers who are with him!
13. If he retreats into a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it into a valley until not even a pebble of it will be found."
14. Then Absalom and everyone in Israel agreed, "The advice of Hushai from Erek is better than Ahithophel’s advice." This was because the Lord had decided to counter Ahithophel’s good advice so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.