Day 135: The Counsel of Hushai (2026)
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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we will read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds, and how we fit into that story today it is day 135 we are reading three chapters today first from second samuel chapter 17 then first chronicles 22 and we're finally praying psalm 36. as always the bible translation that i'm using is the revised standard version the second catholic edition And I'm reading from the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. And you can subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe. As I said, it is day 135. Also, good job. So good. What a gift. And we're reading 2 Samuel chapter 17, 1 Chronicles 22 and Psalm 36. Second book of Samuel chapter 17, the council of Ahithophel continued. Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, let me choose 12,000 men and I will set out and pursue David tonight. I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down the king only and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband.
You seek the life of only one man, and all the people will be at peace. And the advice pleased Absalom and all the elders of Israel, the council of Hushai. Then Absalom said, Call Hushai, the archite also, and let us hear what he has to say. And when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom said to him, Thus has Ahithophel spoken. Shall we do as he advises? If not, you speak. Then Hushai said to Absalom, This time the counsel which Ahithophel has given is not good. Hushai said, Moreover, you know that your father and his men are mighty men. and that they are enraged like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war. He will not spend the night with the people. Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits or in some other place.
And when some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, there has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom. Then even the valiant men whose heart is like the heart of a lion will utterly melt with fear for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man and that those who are with him are valiant men. But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you from Dan to Beersheba as the sand by the sea for multitude and that you go to battle in person. So we shall come upon him in some place where he is to be found and we shall light upon him as the dew falls on the ground and of him and all the men with him, not one will be left. If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city and we shall drag it into the valley until not even a pebble is to be found there.
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel, for the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom. Hushai warns David to escape. Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, Thus and so did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel, now thus and so have I counseled. now therefore send quickly and tell david do not lodge to-night at the fords of the wilderness but by all means pass over lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up now jonathan and ahimaaz were waiting at einrogel a maidservant used to go and tell them and they would go and tell king david for they must not be seen entering the city
But Elad saw them and told Absalom. So both of them went away quickly and came to the house of a man at Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard, and they went down into it. And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth and scattered grain upon it, and nothing was known of it.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–6:07
2
Who is Hushai and why does David send him into Absalom's court?
6:07–6:40
3
What plan does Ahithophel propose to Absalom and why is it persuasive?
6:40–9:23
4
How does Hushai counter Ahithophel's advice to appeal to Absalom's vanity?
9:23–12:55
5
Why does Absalom choose Hushai's counsel over Ahithophel's and what are the consequences?
12:55–14:27
6
How is David warned and escorted to safety after the failed counsel?
14:27–17:58