2 Samuel 17:11
King James Version
“Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.”
Context
8For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they mighty men, and they chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
9Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some 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.
10And he also valiant, whose heart as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father a mighty man, and which with him valiant men.
11Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
12So 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 with him there shall not be left so much as one.
13Moreover, 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.
14And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite 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.