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 will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’

你若回城去，对押沙龙说：‘王啊，我愿作你的仆人；我向来作你父亲的仆人，现在我也照样作你的仆人。’这样，你就可以为我破坏亚希多弗的计谋。

你若回城去，对押沙龙说：‘王啊，我愿作你的仆人。我向来作你父亲的仆人，现在我也愿意作你的仆人。’你就可以为我破坏亚希多弗的计谋。

你若回城去，对押沙龙说：‘王啊，我愿作你的仆人。我向来作你父亲的仆人，现在我也愿意作你的仆人。’你就可以为我破坏亚希多弗的计谋。

你还是回到城中，告诉押沙龙你愿意做他的臣仆，就像以前做我的臣仆一样，这样你就可以帮我破坏亚希多弗的计谋。

如果你回到城里去，对押沙龙说：‘王啊！我愿作你的仆人，以前我作你父亲的仆人，现在我也照样作你的仆人。’这样，你就可以为我破坏亚希多弗的计谋。

你若回城去，對押沙龍說：『王啊，我願作你的僕人；我向來作你父親的僕人，現在我也照樣作你的僕人。』這樣，你就可以為我破壞亞希多弗的計謀。

你若回城去，對押沙龍說：『王啊，我願作你的僕人。我向來作你父親的僕人，現在我也願意作你的僕人。』你就可以為我破壞亞希多弗的計謀。

你若回城去，對押沙龍說：『王啊，我願作你的僕人。我向來作你父親的僕人，現在我也願意作你的僕人。』你就可以為我破壞亞希多弗的計謀。

你還是回到城中，告訴押沙龍你願意做他的臣僕，就像以前做我的臣僕一樣，這樣你就可以幫我破壞亞希多弗的計謀。

如果你回到城裡去，對押沙龍說：‘王啊！我願作你的僕人，以前我作你父親的僕人，現在我也照樣作你的僕人。’這樣，你就可以為我破壞亞希多弗的計謀。

你若回城裏去，對押沙龍說：「王啊，我願做你的僕人；以前我做你父親的僕人，現在我也做你的僕人」：這樣、你就可以為我破壞亞希多弗的計謀。

你如果回城對押沙龍說『王啊，我是你的僕人，我從前是你父親的僕人，現在也是你的僕人』，你就可以為我破壞亞希多弗的謀略。

若歸邑語押沙龍曰、王歟、我欲為爾僕、昔為爾父之僕、今亦如是為爾僕、則必為我敗亞希多弗之謀、

如爾歸城、佯告押沙龍欲為新王之臣、如昔之臣於爾父、則可為我敗亞希多弗之謀。

如爾返城、告押沙龍曰、我願為王之臣、昔為王父之臣、今願為王之臣、或可為我敗亞希多弗之謀、

But if you return to the city and say to Absalom,‘ Your Majesty, I will be your servant; I was your father’s servant in the past, but now I will be your servant,’ then you can help me by frustrating Ahithophel’s advice.

So return to the city. Say to Absalom,‘ Your Majesty, I’ll be your servant. In the past, I was your father’s servant. But now I’ll be your servant.’ If you do that, you can help me by making sure Ahithophel’s advice fails.

But if you return to the city and say to Absalom,‘ I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.

Return to Jerusalem and tell Absalom,‘ I will now be your adviser, O king, just as I was your father’s adviser in the past.’ Then you can frustrate and counter Ahithophel’s advice.

but if you return to the city and tell Absalom,‘ I will be your servant, Your Majesty! Previously, I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant,’ then you can counteract Ahithophel’s counsel for me.

But if you return to the city and say to Absalom,‘ I will be your servant, O king; even as I was your father’s servant in time past, so now I will also be your servant,’ then you can foil the advice of Ahithophel for me.

But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom,‘ I will be your servant, O king; as I was your father’s servant previously, so I will now also be your servant,’ then you may defeat the counsel of Ahithophel for me.

but if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father’s servant in time past, so will I now be thy servant; then wilt thou defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.

but if you return to the city and tell Absalom,‘ I will be your servant, my king! Previously, I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant,’ then you can counteract Ahithophel’s counsel for me.

But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king;[ as] I[ have been] thy father’s servant hitherto, so[ will] I now also[ be] thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.

But you will be able to counter the advice of Ahithophel if you go back to the city and say to Absalom,‘ I will be your servant, O king! Previously I was your father’s servant, and now I will be your servant.’

“ Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Then Absalom said,“ Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says.”When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying,“ Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up.”Hushai said to Absalom,“ The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”Hushai said moreover,“ You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say,‘ There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!’Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him.Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom,“ Long live the king! Long live the king!”Absalom said to Hushai,“ Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”Hushai said to Absalom,“ No; but whomever Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, I will be his, and I will stay with him.Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence.”

You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”