⁷ Then Hushai said to Absalom, “This time the counsel that Ahithophel has given is not good.”

³ and cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes and sold girls for wine and drunk it down.^(A)

²⁴ how Haman son of Hammedatha, the Macedonian, fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots^[a] to destroy them,^(A)