2 Samuel 17:7-9

Amplified Bible

⁷ So Hushai said to Absalom, “Ahithophel has not given good advice this time.” ⁸ And Hushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are brave men, and they are ^[a]enraged and fierce, like a bear deprived of her cubs in the field. Your father is a [shrewd] man of war, and will not spend the night with the people [knowing that you seek his life]. ⁹ Behold, he has hidden himself [even] now in one of the ravines or in another place; and when some of ^[b]your troops fall at the first attack, whoever hears about it will say, ‘There has been a defeat among the people who follow Absalom.’