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20 Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give us your advice. What should we do?”

21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go to your father’s concubines, whom he has left to watch over the palace. Let all Israel hear that you have become disgusting to your father, so that the hands of all who are with you may be strengthened.”

22 So they pitched a tent on the roof for Absalom, and Absalom went to[a] his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 16:22 To go to is a euphemism for having sexual relations.