2 Samuel 16:21-23

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²¹ Ahithophel said to Absalom, ‘Go in to your father’s concubines, the ones he has left to look after the house; and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.’ ²² So they pitched a tent for Absalom upon the roof; and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. ²³ Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the oracle^[a] of God; so all the counsel of Ahithophel was esteemed, both by David and by Absalom.