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20 Absalom turned to Ahithophel and said: »Give us your advice! What should we do?«
21 Ahithophel answered: »Some of your father’s wives were left here to take care of the palace. You should have sex with them. Then everyone will find out that you have publicly disgraced your father. This will make you and your followers even more powerful.«
22 They pitched a tent for Absalom on the palace roof. There in the sight of everyone Absalom went in and had intercourse with his father’s concubines.
23 Any advice that Ahithophel gave in those days was accepted as though it were the very word of God. David and Absalom followed it.