1. Ahithophel said to Absalom:Let me choose twelve thousand men and attack David tonight,
2. while he is tired and discouraged. He will panic, and everyone with him will run away. I won't kill anyone except David,
3. since he's the one you want to get rid of. Then I'll bring the whole nation back to you like a bride coming home to her husband. This way there won't be a civil war.
4. Absalom and all the leaders of the tribes of Israel agreed that Ahithophel had a good plan.