10 And now a sword+ will not depart from your own house to time indefinite,+ as a consequence of the fact that you despised me so that you took the wife of U·riʹah the Hitʹtite to become your wife.’
14 Then Abʹsa·lom and all the men of Israel said: “The counsel of Huʹshai the Arʹchite is better+ than the counsel of A·hithʹo·phel!” And Jehovah himself had given command+ to frustrate the counsel+ of A·hithʹo·phel although good,+ in order that Jehovah might bring calamity+ upon Abʹsa·lom.