ECB(i)
7 And Hushay says to Abi Shalom, The counsel Achiy Thophel counsels is not good at this time.
8 For, says Hushay, you know your father and his men are mighty; and bitter of soul as a bereft bear in the field: and your father is a man of war and stays not overnight with the people.
9 Behold, even now he hides in one of the pits or in one of the places: and so be it, when some of them fall at the beginning, that in hearing, a hearer says, There is a plague among the people who go after Abi Shalom;
10 and he who also is the son of valour whose heart is as the heart of a lion, in melting, he melts: for all Yisra El knows that your father is mighty and they with him are sons of valour.
11 So I counsel, that in gathering, all Yisra El gathers to you - from Dan even to Beer Sheba, as the sand by the sea for abundance; and that you go to war by yourself:
12 and we come upon him in one of the places where we find him; and we light on him as the dew falls on the soil: and of him and of all the men with him not even one remains:
13 and if he gathers into a city, then all Yisra El bears lines to that city and we drag it into the wadi, until they find not even a bundle there.