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put his household in order = gave charge unto his household.
hanged himself. Not so much because his counsel was not, taken, but because his revenge was not taken on David (see note on 2Sa_11:3; 2Sa_16:21, and 2Sa_17:1), and that the conspiracy must fail. Same word in Mat_27:5 as in Septuagint here (apegxato), as though to invite the comparison of Judas with Ahithophel.