8 For,” said Hushai, “you know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are enraged in their minds, like ^aa bear robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father is a man of war, and will not camp with the people.  ‡

9 Surely by now he is hidden in some pit, or in some other place. And it will be, when some of them are overthrown at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’

11 Therefore I advise that all Israel be fully gathered to you, ^afrom Dan to Beersheba, ^blike the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.  ‡

12 So we will come upon him in some place where he may be found, and we will fall on him as the dew falls on the ground. And of him and all the men who are with him there shall not be left so much as one.