17:14 Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel.” Now the Lord had decided 3 to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.
1 tc In the MT the verb is singular, but in the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate it is plural.
2 tn Heb “what is in his mouth.”
3 tn Heb “commanded.”