2 Kings 17:7
And Chusai said to Absalom: The counsel that Achitophel hath given this time is not good.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et dixit Chusai ad Absalom : Non est bonum consilium quod dedit Achitophel hac vice.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Χουσεὶ πρὸς Ἀβεσσαλώμ Οὐκ ἀγαθὴ αὕτη ἡ βουλὴ ἣν ἐβουλεύσατο Ἀχειτόφελ τὸ ἅπαξ τοῦτο.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶר חוּשַׁ֖י אֶל אַבְשָׁל֑וֹם לֹֽא טוֹבָ֧ה הָעֵצָ֛ה אֲשֶׁר יָעַ֥ץ אֲחִיתֹ֖פֶל בַּפַּ֥עַם הַזֹּֽאת
Haydock's commentary
This time, though he displays such prudence on all other occasions; or, "at this time" the situation of affairs is such, that it may prove dangerous to push people, who are already desperate, to extremities. Here we behold, how different sentiments may appear equally plausible. (Haydock)
Mind, reduced to despair. The maxim is beautiful, as well as the comparison. See Osee xiii. 7., Proverbs xvii. 12., and Lamentations iii. 10.
People. Hebrew adds, "in the night;" or, "he will not suffer the people to pass the night" in repose. (Calmet)
He will not entrust his person to a faithless multitude, but will be surrounded with a chosen band, with whom he may escape, even though the rest should flee. (Haydock)
Achitophel had represented David abandoned by his men. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.