³⁴ 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,’^(A) then you can help me by frustrating^(B) Ahithophel’s advice.

¹⁴ Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice^(A) of Hushai the Arkite is better than that of Ahithophel.”^(B) For the Lord had determined to frustrate^(C) the good advice of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster^(D) on Absalom.^(E)

¹⁵ When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it,^(A) we all returned to the wall, each to our own work.