2 Samuel 16:23
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The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
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Jerusalem was David’s royal city, from which he fled across the Jordan and over the Mount of Olives during Absalom’s revolt. These locations frame the crisis in which Ahithophel’s counsel carried exceptional weight, as though one sought God’s own direction.
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2 Samuel 16:23 mentions Jerusalem, Jordan and Mount of Olives.
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