2 Samuel 17:17–29

¹⁷Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by ^lEn-rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David. ¹⁸Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house ^min Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down. ¹⁹And ⁿthe woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ^oground corn thereon; and the thing was not known. ²⁰And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And ^pthe woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem. ²¹And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, ^qArise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you. ²²Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.

²³And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not ^†followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to ^rhis city, and ^†put his household in order, and ^shanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father. ²⁴Then David came to ^tMahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. ²⁵And Absalom made ^uAmasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was ^||Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of ^||Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother. ²⁶So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead. ²⁷And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that ^wShobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and ^xMachir the son of Ammiel of ^yLo-debar, and ^zBarzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, ²⁸Brought beds, and ^||basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse, ²⁹And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and ^aweary, and thirsty, ^bin the wilderness.