2 Samuel 15:25-27

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁵ Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation; ²⁶ but if he says, ‘I have no pleasure in you,’ behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.” ²⁷ The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Look,^[a] go back to the city in peace, you and Abi′athar,^[b] with your two sons, Ahim′a-az your son, and Jonathan the son of Abi′athar.