Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
His city
Put his household in order
General references
Bible References
Saw
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 19:3
Man ruins his life by his own foolishness. His heart chafes with anger against Jehovah.
His city
2 Samuel 15:12
Absalom was offering sacrifices. He sent for Ahithophel, David's adviser, to come from his home in Giloh. Meanwhile, the conspiracy grew stronger. The number of people siding with Absalom kept getting larger.
Put his household in order
2 Kings 20:1
Hezekiah became ill and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz said to him: This is what Jehovah says: 'Give final instructions to your household. You will not recover. You will die.'
And hanged
2 Samuel 15:31
Someone told David: Ahithophel is helping Absalom conspire against you! David said: Please Jehovah keep Ahithophel's plans from working!
1 Samuel 31:4
He said to the young man carrying his weapons: Draw your sword and kill me. That way these godless Philistines will not gloat over me and kill me. But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it.
1 Kings 16:18
Zimri saw that the city had fallen. So he went into the palace's inner fortress and set the palace on fire. He died in the flames.
Job 31:3
Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?
Psalm 5:10
Pronounce them guilty, O God. Let them fall by their own devices. In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out, because they are rebellious against you.
Psalm 55:23
But You, O God, will bring them down to the corruption of the grave. Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
Matthew 27:5
He left the silver in the Temple. Then he went away and hanged himself.
General references
Job 12:17
He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges.