2 Samuel 15:32

HUSHAI PLANNED TO FRUSTRATE THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL

"When David came to the summit, where God is worshipped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet with him with his coat rent and earth upon his head. David said to him, "If you go with me, you will be a burden to me. But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, `I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,' then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel. Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king's house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son; and by them you shall send to me everything you hear." So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem."

"When David came to the summit where God was worshipped" (2 Samuel 15:32). The words `where God was worshipped,' refer to the fact that David and his company paused there to worship God, despite the fact of their lives all being in the most serious jeopardy. DeHoff said, "David was in danger of his life, but he stopped on Mount Olivet for prayer,"[25] a prayer, incidentally, which was answered by the events in this paragraph almost instantaneously. Yes, God was with David even in the manifold sorrows of this dreadful experience.

THE ECHO OF ALL THESE EVENTS IN THE PSALMS

"The rebellion of Absalom and the humiliating flight of David brought out all the better parts of the king's character and set him once more before us as a man after God's own heart; and this part of his life is richly illustrated by the Psalms which he wrote during the pressure of this great affliction. Psalms 41 shows how poignant was his anguish over Ahithophel's treachery."[26]

"Psalms 3 and Psalms 4 were David's morning and evening songs `when he fled from Absalom his son.' David's grief at the loss of his privileges of worship in Jerusalem. In Psalms 27, we have the contrast between Jehovah's abiding goodness and the inconstancy of man; and Psalms 61 and Psalms 62 were probably written at Mahanaim when David's anguish of mind had been assuaged."[27] In our commentary on the Psalms, we have explored many such thoughts as these.