2 Samuel 17:1-5

1And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me, I pray, choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David to-night;

2and 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;

3and I will bring back all the people to thee. The man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: all the people shall be in peace.

4And the saying was right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

5And Absalom said, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and we will hear also what he says.