The Council of Hushai the Arkyte Is Better Than the Council of a Hithafel

Hushai said to Absalom, This time the Council which Ahithofel has given is not good. 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. Now therefore, send quickly and till David, do not lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over lest the king and all the people who were with them be swallowed up. By daybreak, not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan. When Iithafel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went