2 Samuel 16:19-21

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁹ Moreover, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? Just as I have served your father, so I will serve you.”

²⁰ Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give us your counsel; what shall we do?” 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.”