Giloh

Giloh was a Judean hill-country town southwest of Hebron (Joshua 15:51), famous as the hometown of Ahithophel the Gilonite, whose counsel "in those days was like the oracle of God" (2 Samuel 16:23). When Absalom rebelled, Ahithophel left Giloh to become his chief strategist. His advice to send 12,000 men to overtake David that very night would have ended the rebellion in David's death, but Hushai the Archite (David's planted informant) talked Absalom into delay. When Ahithophel realized his counsel had been rejected, "he saddled his donkey and went home to his city. He set his house in order and hanged himself" (2 Samuel 17:23). He was also Bathsheba's grandfather (2 Sam 23:34).