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fullscreen36 ராஜா தனக்கு இஷ்டமானபடி செய்து, தன்னை உயர்த்தி, எந்த தேவனிலும் தன்னைப் பெரியவனாக்கி தேவாதி தேவனுக்கு விரோதமாக ஆச்சரியமான காரியங்களைப் பேசுவான்; கோபம் தீருமட்டும் அவனுக்குக் கைகூடிவரும்; நிர்ணயிக்கப்பட்டது நடந்தேறும்.

fullscreen37 அவன் தன் பிதாக்களின் தேவர்களை மதியாமலும், ஸ்திரீகளின் சிநேகத்தையும், எந்த தேவனையும் மதியாமலும், எல்லாவற்றிற்கும் தன்னைப் பெரியவனாக்கி,

fullscreen38 அரண்களின் தேவனைத் தன் ஸ்தானத்திலே கனம்பண்ணி தன் பிதாக்கள் அறியாத ஒரு தேவனைப் பொன்னினாலும் வெள்ளியினாலும், இரத்தினங்களினாலும், உச்சிதமான வஸ்துக்களினாலும் கனம்பண்ணுவான்.

fullscreen39 அவன் அரணிப்பான கோட்டைகளுக்காகவும், அந்நிய தேவனுக்காகவும் செய்வது என்னவென்றால், அவைகளை மதிக்கிறவர்களுக்கு மகா கனமுண்டாக்கி, அவர்கள் அநேகரை ஆளும்படிச் செய்து, அவர்களுக்கு தேசத்தைக் கிரயத்துக்காகப் பங்கிடுவான்.

fullscreen40 முடிவுகாலத்திலோவென்றால் தென்றிசை ராஜா அவனோடே முட்டுக்கு நிற்பான்; வடதிசை ராஜாவும் இரதங்களோடும் குதிரைவீரர்களோடும் அநேகம் கப்பல்களோடும் சூறைக்காற்றுபோல் அவனுக்கு விரோதமாய் வருவான்; அவன் தேசங்களுக்குள் பிரவேசித்து, அவைகளைப் பிரவாகித்துக் கடந்துபோவான்.

fullscreen41 அவன் சிங்காரமான தேசத்திலும் வருவான்; அப்பொழுது அநேக தேசங்கள் கவிழ்க்கப்படும்; ஆனாலும் ஏதோமும், மோவாபும், அம்மோன் புத்திரரில் பிரதானமானவர்களும், அவன் கைக்குத் தப்பிப்போவார்கள்.

fullscreen42 அவன் தேசங்களின்மேல் தன் கையை நீட்டுவான்; எகிப்துதேசம் தப்புவதில்லை.

fullscreen43 எகிப்தினுடைய பொன்னும் வெள்ளியுமான ஐசுவரியங்களையும் உச்சிதமான எல்லா வஸ்துக்களையும் ஆண்டுகொள்ளுவான்; லீபியரும் எத்தியோப்பியரும் அவனுக்குப் பின்செல்லுவார்கள்.

fullscreen44 ஆனாலும் கிழக்கிலும் வடக்கிலும் இருந்து வரும் செய்திகள் அவனைக் கலங்கப்பண்ணும்; அப்பொழுது அவன் அநேகரை அழிக்கவும் சங்காரம்பண்ணவும் மகா உக்கிரத்தோடே புறப்பட்டுப்போய்,

fullscreen45 சமுத்திரங்களுக்கு இடையிலுள்ள சிங்காரமான பரிசுத்த பர்வதத்தண்டையிலே தன் அரமனையாகிய கூடாரங்களைப் போடுவான்; ஆனாலும் அவனுக்கு ஒத்தாசை பண்ணுவாரில்லாமல், அவன் முடிவடைவான்.

36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.

39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.

40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.

45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

2 And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:

3 And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.

6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou.

7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time.

8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.

11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.

12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.

13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.

14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.

15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.

18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.

19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.

20 And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.

22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.

23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

25 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.

26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

28 Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,

29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.