but another thane wisely opposed his design,
and showed Absalom a different counsel,
worse to his [Ahitophel's] liking, because God thus intended
that David should be delivered from their madness.
Then Ahitophel was angry, and became filled with wickedness,
because his counsel might not please the cruel man,
by reason of the other's rede, and straightway rode him home,
bequeathed his property, and killed himself
in a high noose, so that he died by hanging.
So the councillor ended his cruel design,
who sought to advise wrongly his true lord.
Absalom then fared forth with his evil counsel,
desiring to deprive his own father of life
and possess his dominion, but God willed it not*
Then he rode on his mule with a great army
through a high wood, with hostile intention;
then speedily a tree caught him by the hair,
because be was long-haired, and he hanged so,
and the mule ran forward from the wicked lord,
and David's thanes pierced him through.
So the traitor to his father ended his evil counsel with his life.
So likewise Judas, who cruelly betrayed
our Saviour Christ, killed himself
by hanging in a noose, an apostate from God,
everlastingly damned as the Lord's betrayer.
Every man shall likewise be damned who killeth himself,
and every suicide shall suffer everlastingly,
and traitors shall perish in the end
with the perfidious devil who incited them to treachery.
