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12 Absalom also sent for Ahithophel[a] the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come[b] from his home town of Giloh while Absalom[c] was presenting the sacrificial offerings. And so the conspiracy widened, because the common people increasingly sided with Absalom.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 15:12 Ahithophel was Bathsheba’s grandfather; cf. 2Sam 11:3; 23:34
  2. 2 Samuel 15:12 The Heb. lacks to come
  3. 2 Samuel 15:12 Lit. he