2 Samuel 15:31

Now David ¹  had been told, “Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed, ²  “Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O Lord!”

2Sa 15:12; 2Sa 16:23; 2Sa 17:14,23; Job 5:12; Job 12:16-20; Ps 3:1; Ps 41:9; Ps 55:12,14; Ps 55:15; Ps 109:3; Isa 19:3,11-25; Jer 8:8,9; Mt 26:14,15; Joh 13:18; 1Co 1:20; 1Co 3:18-20; Jas 3:15

¹ tc The translation follows 4QSam^a, part of the Greek tradition, the Syriac Peshitta, Targum, and Vulgate uldavid in reading “and to David,” rather than MT וְדָוִד (vÿdavid, “and David”). As Driver points out, the Hebrew verb הִגִּיד (higgid, “he related”) never uses the accusative for the person to whom something is told (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 316).

² tn Heb “said.”